Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Affordable art: Three works priced under £1300 in regional auctions including one of over 50 Goodwin works at auction
01 April 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales under £1300, including an Albert Goodwin view of Whitby.
‘Best example’ of artist David Fulton’s work
01 April 2019David Fulton (1848-1930) was a Glasgow painter who, like his contemporaries Gemmell Hutchison and William Marshall Brown, specialised in painting children in sentimental settings.
Rooke on a roll in London sale
01 April 2019Burne-Jones’ studio assistant shows his own artistic skills in the Pre-Raphaelite genre.
Scrappy album but quality watercolour views inside
01 April 2019Consigned from a deceased estate in Oxfordshire, a loosely bound album containing nearly 100 watercolours of marine and topographical views drew multiple bids at an Oxford saleroom.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including a Lowestoft pug, an undiscovered melody by Elgar and Russian avant-garde art
25 March 2019With estimates from £150-15,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
A portrait with bonus – the sitter’s waistcoat
25 March 2019Old portraits will typically long outlast the garments worn in them. Lot 135 in an auction held at Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) in Cambridge on March 6 was one of those rare instances when both portrait and clothing had survived together.
Ancient market a ‘thriving niche’
25 March 2019It was during a period of intense industrialisation that the 19th century pastoral tradition in British print making flourished.
’Noble’ blind stamp fires bids for Old Master drawing
25 March 2019The Old Master section of Dominic Winter’s sale on March 7 yielded multi-estimate sums for two works that were linked to major names in Renaissance and marine art.
Affordable art: Three works priced under £2000 in regional auctions including a mixed media and collage on card by John Maxwell
25 March 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales under £2000, including a work by Scottish painter John Maxwell.
Six lots to watch at auction this week including a dolls house, 200 halfcrowns and a Gallé vase
18 March 2019With estimates from £400-8000, here are six previews from upcoming sales this week.
Buyers go to great lengths to acquire portraits with a personal connection to the sitter
18 March 2019Some areas of the secondary pictures market march to their own beat, appearing to defy the usual forces that determine value. Ancestral paintings are such a category.
Previews: £2001 - £5000
18 March 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £30,000 plus
18 March 2019A selection of post-war Italian pieces from the interiors of Casa Lucano, a large apartment in Milan designed by Gio Ponti in 1951, will be offered in a joint auction by Phillips and Italian auction house Cambi in London on March 21.
Affordable art: Three works priced at £1000 and under in regional auctions including a head study by Victorian painter Joshua Hargrave Sams Mann
18 March 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales at £1000 and below, including an oval oil head study by the Victorian painter Joshua Hargrave Sams Mann (1826-88).