Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Gwyneth Johnstone's frenetic scene of London home hits auction high in Cambridge sale
02 March 2020Auction prices are on the rise for the late Norfolk artist Gwyneth Johnstone (1914-2010), daughter of the artist Augustus John and niece of the Welsh painter Gwen John.
Karl Hofer expresses himself at Taunton auction
02 March 2020This late drawing by Karl Hofer (1878-1955), the German Expressionist painter who was branded a creator of ‘degenerate art’ by the Nazis, was one of dozens consigned by his family to Taunton saleroom Greenslade Taylor Hunt (19.5% buyer’s premium).
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2500 including a Kenneth Newton still-life
24 February 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Kenneth Newton still-life.
All calm after a splitting headache
24 February 2020Pair of Abstract oils by Richard Smith had been cut in two but that did not deter the bidders.
Painter portrays a lover
24 February 2020This early-20th century portrait by Ronald Ossory Dunlop (1894-1973) depicts the actor and artist Jean Shepeard (1904-89).
From fisherfolk to high society
24 February 2020The 19th century Dutch painter Jozef Israëls (1824-1911), a leading member of the Hague School group of landscape painters, was best known for his realistic and sympathetic portrayals of the Dutch peasantry and fisherfolk.
Varley the watercolour wonder
17 February 2020Group of paintings by one of the less well-known masters of the medium comes to light
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1250 including a Marjorie Bruford oil
17 February 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Marjorie Bruford Cornish village scene.
Hockney snowbound print drifts into Lots Road
17 February 2020This large lithograph forms part of the Weather Series, a suite of prints created by David Hockney (b.1937) in 1973.
Dorothea Sharp still-life blooms with bold colour in Surrey
17 February 2020As well as painting sunny pictures of children on the beaches of Cornwall, Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955) frequently turned her paintbrush to still-lifes.
Burgess portrait of daughter draws serious attention in Dorset
17 February 2020The Victorian artist John Bagnold Burgess (1829- 97), grandson of a painter who counted Thomas Gainsborough among his pupils, was best known as a painter of genre scenes.
'New prints' refresh Japanese subjects
17 February 2020Shin-hanga, meaning ‘new prints’, emerged in Japan during the early 20th century. Aimed at Western tastes, the artistic movement combined the traditional colourful woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e with nostalgic and romanticised Japanese subjects.
Many faces of Mod Brit art
17 February 2020Modestly catalogued as English School, 1960s, a Modern British study of a head emerged as one of the top-selling pictures at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium) in Stansted Mountfitchet.
French artist's view of Normandy in the snow makes ten-times estimate in Sussex auction
10 February 2020This early-20th century snow scene, below, was painted by the French artist Paul Elie Gernez (1888-1948). He was primarily a naturalist painter of still-lives, landscapes and seascapes, and spent much of his life in Honfleur in Normandy.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2000 including a Walter Greaves Thames work on paper
10 February 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Walter Greaves Thames scene.
Late Cedric Morris comes into bloom
10 February 2020Eight-strong group by the artist-plantsman provides market pointer for his post-1930s work
Pre-Raphaelite followers take the limelight
10 February 2020Drawings by two later followers of the Pre-Raphaelites drew competition at separate regional salerooms.
Lowry drawing of bearded man with walking cane sells above hopes at Capes Dunn
10 February 2020This pencil drawing of a bearded man with a walking cane by LS Lowry (1887-1976) is typical of the stylised figures based on the men and women the artist passed in the street.
Portrait of the ‘ablest man in the army’ makes over 60-times estimate at Hansons
03 February 2020This 19th century half-length portrait right depicts the Anglo-Irish soldier and politician William Carr Beresford (1768-1854) who fought alongside The Duke of Wellington.
Sickert shows his lighter side at Lawrences' auction
03 February 2020Late work by the pivotal avant-garde painter belies the dark nature of earlier works