Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Chicago sale lit up by cameos and intaglios
26 June 2023Combining scholarly, decorative and evocative appeal, cameos and intaglios are a highly collectable area of the antiquities market.
How Vellacott made a clean start
19 June 2023Fabrics, costumes and theatre set designer turned to painting when her work was destroyed by a bomb
Venetian veduta with a whiff of Bison
19 June 2023This classic example of Venetian vedute was taken to a multi-estimate £34,000 at Gardiner Houlgate (22% buyer’s premium) in Corsham.
Highest Mayer auction sum since 1989
19 June 2023Enthusiastic bidding emerged for two paintings included in an Old Masters sale at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium).
Works offered from key figure in the Christie’s story
19 June 2023More than 70 lots of paintings, works on paper and antiques assembled by the well-known auctioneer and collector Paul Whitfield (1942- 2018) went under the hammer at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford on May 17.
Big Apple TEFAF all set to open
08 May 2023TEFAF New York returns this year to the Park Avenue Armory from May 12-16.
Take a peak at Buxton
08 May 2023The picturesque spa town of Buxton in the Peak District will once again host its long-running annual fair.
West Sussex event benefits from the ‘triangle’ location
08 May 2023Fair in Petworth benefits from its setting near to a famous National Trust’s property and an 'antiques destination' town
Kean kept a low profile but is now in the spotlight
08 May 2023The stand-free fair, 'Eye of the Collector', returns to London this May for its third physical edition.
5 Questions: export porcelain specialist Allard van Halm
08 May 2023Allard van Halm runs van Halm & van Halm, specialising in 17th and 18th Chinese and Japanese export porcelain from his base in Portobello Road. He will be exhibiting at The Decorative Fair in Battersea from May 9-14.
The web shop window: recent discovery of a work by artist Georgette Rondel
08 May 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Italian attractions in Philadelphia
24 April 2023This typical genre scene by Italian painter Alessandro Milesi (1856-1945) was taken to a multi-estimate $37,500 (£31,000) at a US auction
View of the Acropolis is high point at Roseberys
24 April 2023This oil depicting the Acropolis in Athens by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844-1905) was taken to £13,000 at Roseberys (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).
Tesson’s delicacies in line with bidders’ taste
24 April 2023French artist Louis Tesson (1820-70) is best known for his genre paintings in the Middle East and north Africa.
European Art: Freshness and pitch combine to create market bright spots
24 April 2023While demand for 19th century European art remains selective, recent sales have enjoyed good bidding on the ‘right’ material with appealing estimates
French artist’s nude makes four times estimate in Geneva
24 April 2023The stand-out lot offered at a recent sale at Piguet (23% buyer’s premium) of Geneva was a female nude by Jean Souverbie (1891-1981).
Elegant sitter ‘from the Fairfaxes’ catches the attention
27 March 2023A flurry of bids emerged at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford for a particularly fine 17th century portrait of a young woman.
Trade greets market fresh Wodehouse Old Master wonders
27 March 2023Middle market Old Masters, longstanding family ownership, market freshness... what’s not to like?
JJ Lally & Co lots span 5000 years of Chinese history
06 March 2023Bonhams will offer two single-owner collections as part of its programme for Asia Week New York.
Kuniyoshi masters woodblock prints
06 March 2023As its Asia Week New York offering, Egenolf Gallery presents Prints and Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), Master of Graphic Storytelling.