Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
It’s Grimshaw down south
28 December 2019Paintings by Leeds-born artist Louis H Grimshaw (1870-1943) are often overshadowed by his better-known father, John Atkinson Grimshaw (1863-93).
Sporting scenes tracked down by eager buyers
28 December 2019Several 19th and 20th century sporting paintings from named estates provided a healthy boost at two regional salerooms.
Drawn to Paris in its prime
28 December 2019Paintings by 20th century artists who flocked to Paris during its artistic heyday were the main focus in a sale of Impressionist, Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art at south London auction house Roseberys (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).
Life’s a simple beach for Boudin
23 December 2019“I will always be a painter of beaches,” declared Eugène Boudin (1824-98) in 1864.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2250 including a David Young Cameron castle view
23 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a David Young Cameron castle view.
Dutch seascape sweeps into Tyneside
16 December 2019A ‘prominent’ northern English family consigned a seascape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-82) to Anderson & Garland (22% buyer’s premium).
Classic work kicks off new sale format
16 December 2019An international buyer paid £34,000 for a 15th century Netherlandish School oil on panel of the Virgin and St Elizabeth which was last on the market in 1955.
Engravings succeed through thick and thin
16 December 2019A pair of engravings after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-69) sold for more than six-times estimate at auction in Essex.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £900 including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print
16 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print.
Selection day - voting for quality
16 December 2019Bidders respond positively to auction combination of quality, freshness and pricing.
Robert Bevan's horse-drawn cab painting hailed by bidders at London's Mod Brit series
09 December 2019A Post-Impressionist painting of a horse-drawn hansom cab by Robert Bevan (1865-1925) was one of the headline lots at the Modern British art sales in London.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2250 including a John Piper church screen print
09 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a John Piper church screen print.
Album displays Bristol’s brightest minds
09 December 2019Watercolour collection sold at auction represents a ‘who’s who’ of the city in the 1830s
Norse legend makes a watercolour wonder
09 December 2019An early watercolour by Isabel Codrington (1874-1943) depicts the Norse legend of the goddess Iduna and King Thiassi, who disguised himself as an eagle to kidnap her.
Victorian suffragette artist on song at North Yorkshire auction
09 December 2019Fewer than 30 works are known by the Victorian artist and noted Suffragette Susan Isabel Dacre (1844-1933).
Orientalist pastel by Carl Haag exceeds estimate in Maidenhead
09 December 2019A piece of Orientalist art by German-born watercolourist Carl Haag (1820-1915) drew multiple bids at Maidenhead saleroom Dawson’s (23% buyer’s premium).
Classic coach scene by James Pollard
02 December 2019This classic mail coach scene by the 19th century painter James Pollard (1792-1867) doubled pre-sale hopes in a picture auction at Surrey saleroom John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium).
Twentieth century portraits of notable sitters are all the rage among eager buyers
02 December 2019A spate of early to mid-20th century portraits of society figures and important personalities generated stiff competition at UK sales in London and the regions.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1750 including an Anne Redpath cityscape
02 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Anne Redpath cityscape.
Farquharson brings the sun to Dorset
02 December 2019Included among more than 70 paintings and prints offered at Dorset saleroom Clarke’s Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) was this uncharacteristic Joseph Farquharson (1846-1935) oil of the artist’s garden in Aberdeenshire.