Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
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24 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Chocks away for Biggles author watercolours in Essex auction
24 July 2017A scarce collection of watercolours by Biggles creator WE Johns (1893-1968) sold beyond expectations in Sworders’ (22% buyer’s premium) June 27 sale in Stansted Mountfitchet.
Larkin's Pope portrait condition impresses
17 July 2017An impeccably preserved portrait of Thomas Pope, later 3rd Earl of Downe, by William Larkin (1580-1619), led Bonhams’ (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) Old Master Paintings sale on July 5.
Canaletto creates a Venetian crowning glory
17 July 2017A record-breaking Canaletto (1697-1768) drawing was the toast of the capital’s Old Masters drawings sales.
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17 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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17 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
New life breathed into Old Masters
17 July 2017Written off by some as a dying area, the latest Old Master series in London defied the naysayers with encouraging results during its traditional ‘grand finale’ slot at the end of the London sales season.
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17 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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17 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Artist who is now ruffling feathers
17 July 2017“If I was a dealer, I’d buy the whole lot and put on a show. He’s a sort of great ‘undiscovered’ artist.” Mimi Lay of the Penzance auction house David Lay is referring to a consignment of graphic art by the 20th century painter and lithographer Richard Platt (b.1928).
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17 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Nevinson aerial print impresses in East Sussex sale
10 July 2017Another work by CRW Nevinson (1889-1946) in the form of an aerial wartime print was offered in Gorringe’s (23% buyer’s premium) June 27 sale.
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10 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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10 July 2017A set of four hunting scenes by John Nost Sartorius (1759-1828) is being offered on the art market for the first time at Rountree Tryon Galleries in Mayfair.
Rare Lowestoft emerges at auction
10 July 2017Following a near sell-out auction of Lowestoft in March at Keys of Aylsham, another tranche is poised to go under the saleroom’s hammer.
Nevinson winter scene passes market test for his post-war works
10 July 2017“It is something, at the age of 31, to be among the most discussed, most successful, most promising, most admired and most hated British artists.” So wrote the critic Charles Lewis Hind about the war artist CRW Nevinson (1889-1946) in 1920.
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10 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Buyers take latest coach in Hampshire
10 July 2017Over the last four months, a steady trickle of coaching scenes has been making its way onto the market via John Nicholson’s (24% buyer’s premium).
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10 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
10 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.