Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Five lots to watch at auction this week including a Byron silhouette and a 1960s jukebox
04 February 2019With estimates from £100-3000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Mystery sitter in a bow tie
04 February 2019This inter-war ‘English school’ portrait of a seated gentleman wearing a bow tie, bought for around £150 three decades ago, sold for an unexpected £7600 at Charterhouse (21% buyer’s premium) on January 17. The unfinished 4ft 2in x 3ft 4in (1.27 x 1.01m) oil was dated 1922 but unsigned.
Bright white house buy in Edinburgh sale
04 February 2019A painting by Scottish artist Dorothy Johnstone (1892-1980), executed near the peak of her career in 1921 made £3250 at Edinburgh saleroom Franklin Browns (15% buyer’s premium).
Olwyn Bowey greenhouse gets warm reception at auction
04 February 2019The £140,000 record-breaking Cedric Morris lower painting at Chichester saleroom Henry Adams (plus 20% buyer’s premium) was not the only work by an artist-plantsman to feature in the January 17 sale (see ATG No 2377 for more on that Morris result).
Affordable art: three works priced under £1000 in regional auctions including a Thomas Butterworth oil
04 February 2019Three modestly valued works in regional sales.
Dora Carrington ‘tinsel’ painting of circus is top lot as buyers splash the cash in Somerset auction
04 February 2019“There’s no money around in January” is the refrain you often hear from businesses in the new year. But, as we know, the auction world behaves differently from other commercial markets.
Four lots to watch at auction this week including a Lowry sketch and a John Knibb clock
28 January 2019With estimates from £400-40,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Cricket painting shows some of the very earliest days at the crease
28 January 2019An English School painting depicting one of the earliest venues in cricket was knocked down at £14,000 in a Winchester auction.
Mod Brits get in the Holliday mood
28 January 2019Modern British pictures by female artists made a major contribution to the bottom line at Sworders’ (23% buyer’s premium) dispersal of the Barbara Holliday Collection.
Affordable art: three works priced under £600 in regional auctions including a Will Charles Penn watercolour
28 January 2019Three modestly valued works sold in regional sales.
Missionary zeal and tsunami destruction at Christie's
28 January 2019An unusual Chinese School picture of a 17th century Dutch missionary scene led Christie’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) £2m sale of topographical pictures in London.
