Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Antiques trade chiefs: Resourcefulness and ingenuity will be crucial in 2021
25 January 2021The heads of three associations say dealers need to rise to the challenges during the toughest trading period for decades
LARTA’s online coverage as 11th edition gets underway
25 January 2021Usually held on the mezzanine of the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea Park, the London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA) migrates online this year with an extended run.
The web shop window: ornate pair of George III ormolu ice pails
25 January 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Dealer offers epic Habsburg poem on vellum at Stuttgart Rare Book Fair
25 January 2021Presented on vellum with luxury colouring and illuminated with silver and gold, this is a rare first edition of Theuerdank.
Palm Beach Show set to run as live event in February
25 January 2021The annual winter fair schedule in the Sunshine State has been upended by the pandemic but one of its anchor events plans to go ahead.
5 Questions: Contemporary art specialist Nick Crean
25 January 2021Nick Crean began his career running the private office of Charles and Maurice Saatchi and recently founded Crean & Company, an online gallery championing established and emerging mixed-media Contemporary artists.
Dealers lead online charge at The Winter Show in New York
18 January 2021New York’s Americana-focused event and longest-running antiques fair, The Winter Show, holds its 67th edition online from January 22-31 with around 60 exhibitors taking part.
The web shop window: Roger Broders' 1928 ski poster of Chamonix
18 January 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Pontormo provides bright spark in a grey world
18 January 2021This recently discovered grisaille painting of Adam and Eve by the Florentine Mannerist artist Jacopo Carucci (1494-1557), known as Pontormo, is the centrepiece of a new exhibition of monochromatic works at New York gallery Nicholas Hall.
Swedish painter’s alpine view brings a sense of place to Master Drawings New York
18 January 2021“It was the first time I found myself in front of a glacier, alone in the infinite silence and solitude of the snow mountain, surrounded by the overwhelming majesty of nature…”
5 Questions: furniture and works of art dealer Nicholas Wells
18 January 2021Nicholas Wells has run Nicholas Wells Antiques in London since 2012, selling furniture and works of art primarily in the British town and country house aesthetic.
London fair provides folk art platform via the internet
11 January 2021Folk art is in the spotlight at the first digital edition of The London Art Fair.
BADA’s first female chairman looks to virtual world with a human touch
11 January 2021New BADA chairman feels personal contact is still vital for firms in a Covid-19 environment
5 Questions: Tom Parry of Chester’s Farm Antiques
11 January 2021Tom Parry runs Chester’s Farm Antiques in Nottinghamshire and specialises in decorative arts, including ceramics, jewellery and silver.
Picasso and Hugo partnership platters appear in first UK show
11 January 2021Though prolific in many mediums, Pablo Picasso created silver platters in only 24 designs throughout his entire career, creating an even smaller number of pieces in gold.
The web shop window: ornate Renaissance pearl pendant
11 January 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Tune in to a group of folk zingers
21 December 2020Simple folk art depictions stuffed full of charm prove highly attractive to buyers at Dreweatts' auction.
'More affordable' alternatives to the very top names at Roseberys
21 December 2020An array of affordable alternatives to the blue-chip names in Modern British art generated strong bidding at Roseberys' (25% buyer’s premium) auction.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1600 including a Harry Fidler oil
21 December 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Harry Fidler oil.
Venetian works by ‘follower of’ Canaletto make big sums in their own right
19 October 2020A high-quality veduta of Venice by one of Canaletto’s followers was the runaway star at Chorley’s (22.5/15/12.5/10% buyer’s premium) two-day auction in Gloucestershire.