Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Previews: £501 - £2000
22 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £2001 - £5000
22 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
22 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £30,000 plus
22 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Monthly picture sales reap rewards
22 May 2017“I think the secret to our success is that we now hold an art sale every four weeks.” A 90% sell-through rate from 400 lots was the latest bullish stat to come out of John Nicholson’s (24% buyer’s premium) monthly picture auctions, started this year by specialist Buffy Parker.
Saville in the flesh at Edinburgh sale
22 May 2017Jenny Saville’s (b.1970) contorted and grotesquely fleshy female nudes are hot property on the contemporary art market.
Cubist inspiration is key to ever-popular northern art
22 May 2017The Cubist-inspired oils of Manchester artist Geoffrey Key (b.1941) regularly feature at Peter Wilson (20% buyer’s premium) in nearby Nantwich.
Shabby shock: mystery woman on damaged canvas makes £9500
22 May 2017A rather shabby portrait of an unknown woman sparked a bidding battle at W&H Peacock (17.5% buyer’s premium) in Bedford on May 5.
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22 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Photography in focus as sales timed to coincide with London fair
15 May 2017Satellite events and specialist photography sales are riding on the coattails of Photo London (May 18-21) this spring, coinciding with the fair’s four-day run at Somerset House.
Previews: Up to £500
15 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £501 - £2000
15 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Czech sculptor with right royal connections
15 May 2017Bronze busts of the Queen and Prince Philip from the Oxfordshire studio of Czech émigré sculptor Franta Belsky (1921-2000) took top honours at Mallams (20% buyer’s premium) in Oxford on April 25.
Previews: £2001 - £5000
15 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
15 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £30,000 plus
15 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Rare peak at Welsh artist’s work
15 May 2017Unusual appearance of mountain views by painter whose career was cut short by tuberculosis
Shipshape Cornish work sails back home
15 May 2017A Newlyn School work by Albert Chevalier Tayler (1862-1926) topped David Lay’s (18% buyer’s premium) April 27 sale in Penzance.
Travels into the art ‘twilight zone’ amid Brexit and election market turbulence
08 May 2017Brexit, rising inflation and now the distraction of a snap general election has left a feeling in the picture trade that the good start to the year may begin to fade.
Another Fauvist work emerges from Northampton
08 May 2017A painting of St Tropez by the Fauvist painter Charles Camoin (1879-1965) went under the hammer for the first time in more than half a century at Gildings (15% buyer’s premium).