Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Wartime letters to ‘Queenie’ up at auction
13 November 2017Cirencester auction house Moore Allen & Innocent will offer a cache of uncensored letters written by a prominent First World War officer.
Keeping it Surreal in Dorset
13 November 2017A collection of market-fresh pictures with a distinctive Surrealist streak found favour with buyers at Charterhouse (21% buyer’s premium) in Dorset.
Early Brits Fitz the bill at 25 Blythe Road auction
13 November 2017Fitzroy Square to the north of central London was a key location in early 20th century British art. Virginia Woolf lived here for several years, a few doors down from Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler also had a studio.
Cecil Kennedy shows petal power
13 November 2017This archetypal still-life by Cecil Kennedy (1905-97) topped Halls’ (20% buyer’s premium) £300,000 auction on October 18.
Outsider art starts to find acceptance
06 November 2017The value of ‘Outsider’ art continues to grow following the dispersal of one of the UK’s largest collections at Anderson & Garland (25% buyer’s premium).
Peploe hair pin pic secured by his grandson at auction
06 November 2017A brace of unrecorded pastels by celebrated Scottish Colourist SJ Peploe (1871-1935) sold strongly at Lawrences (22% buyer’s premium) in Crewkerne.
Sew much more at Bleasdales auction
06 November 2017Alongside its usual biannual sewing sale, Warwick auction house Bleasdales will offer art and antiques from the estate of a British noble family.
Landscape painter Hamilton Hay reaps sale reward
06 November 2017This evening village scene by the landscape painter James Hamilton Hay (1874- 1916) drew multiple bids at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (21% buyer’s premium) in Exeter on October 3.
Final slice of the Yeats family lots
30 October 2017Further items from the talented Yeats family are heading to auction this autumn.
