Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
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12 June 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Royal rifle made for George IV offered at Holt's
12 June 2017Guns made for the hands of an illustrious owner have added allure for collectors of antique firearms – particularly if those hands are royal.
Abstract attractions at de Veres Irish sale
12 June 2017Mirroring Whyte’s recent auction and its own Irish sale back in April, de Veres’ top performer on May 21 was another work by William Scott.
Sussex buyer follows the plough
05 June 2017A painting by equine artist Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958) sold for four times its top guide at Bellmans (20% buyer’s premium).
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05 June 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Pop goes the easel for Eduardo Paolozzi lots
05 June 2017A selection of vibrant prints, artist’s proofs and portrait studies by the 20th century artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is up for sale in County Durham.
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05 June 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Bidders on hunt for field sports pictures
05 June 2017“In the 19th century, before football came along, it was all about field sports,” says Iain Byatt-Smith of Bonhams’ (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) Scottish picture department.
Daubigny goes with the flow
05 June 2017A Charles-Francois Daubigny (1817-78) painting that had been in the same private collection since 1963 topped Nesbits’ (19% buyer’s premium) sale in Portsmouth on May 17.
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05 June 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
My lord: £200,000 for Siena scene
05 June 2017This depiction of a 16th century bullfight in Siena’s Piazza del Campo starred in Christie’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale of the collection of the late Lord Weidenfeld.
Previews: £501 - £2000
05 June 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £2001 - £5000
05 June 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: Up to £500
30 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £501 - £2000
30 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Council cuts bring art to market
30 May 2017Seventy years ago, councils around the UK launched Pictures for Schools, a scheme to bring original works of art into the classroom.
Polar explorer art discovery made in Chelsea
30 May 2017Watercolours by the polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) were discovered among thousands of works from Stanley Studios in Chelsea.
Shopping for furniture and works of art
30 May 2017A selection of the furniture and works of art on offer from auction houses and dealers in London this summer.
Welsh art shows maturity in the market
30 May 2017“The good thing for Welsh art is the maturity of the tourist industry. It’s no longer, ‘if you want to go to Wales, you go to Butlin’s in Pwllheli’.” Ben Rogers Jones of Rogers Jones (20% buyer’s premium) puts much of the increased demand for Welsh art over the last 20 years down to that tourism trend.
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30 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.