Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
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Rowland Hilder landscape attracts bidders at Mallams
03 October 2022This typically wintry scene by the prolific artist Rowland Hilder (1905-93) was the star lot of Mallams’ (25% buyer’s premium) Modern Living sale.
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Fedden gets away second time around
03 October 2022Returning to auction for the second time in a year, this still-life by Mary Fedden (1915- 2012) fetched £15,500 at Reeman Dansie (20% buyer’s premium).
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Portrait by an islander who ended up becoming isolated
03 October 2022This portrait by Brenda Chamberlain (1912-71) will be offered in the sale of Welsh Art at Rogers Jones in Cardiff on November 19.
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Keith Vaughan from a key period
03 October 2022A conscientious objector conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps in 1941, the artist Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was stationed at Ashton Gifford in Wiltshire then Malton in Yorkshire.
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Bomberg on his travels
03 October 2022Over a dozen paintings by David Bomberg (1890-1957) are being offered on the market for the first time at Dreweatts.
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Top-sellers in Welsh auction are both by painters who died young
03 October 2022Modern British art assembled over a lifetime by a Monmouthshire-based collector generated some decent competition in a timed online auction at Rogers Jones & Co (24% buyer’s premium).
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O’Casey crow sculpture attracts a flurry of bids
03 October 2022Simple, nature-inspired motifs and geometric shapes run through the work of St Ives artist Breon O’Casey (1928-2011).
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Master of tempera Southall tempts with watercolours too
03 October 2022A leading member of the Birmingham Group and closely associated with the Arts & Crafts movement, Joseph Southall (1861-1944) is probably best known for tempera painting – the painstaking medieval technique he helped revive.
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Gaudier-Brzeska owned by a Courtauld emerges at Bellmans
03 October 2022Inspired by his trips to Richmond Park in south-west London, French-born sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) fashioned a number of deer sculptures.
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Dreweatts to hold sale of items from Windsor House Antiques
29 August 2022Auction house Dreweatts will conduct a sale at Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire – home to dealership Windsor House Antiques – on September 7.
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Grosvenor Prints' new catalogue offers more than 220 items
29 August 2022Over 220 items (and counting) are in the forthcoming Catalogue 119 – the latest offering from Covent Garden dealership Grosvenor Prints.
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Burlingham in tune with the house mix
29 August 2022Nestled in 400 acres of land in Hampshire is Heckfield Place, a Georgian manor house masterfully restored and renovated into a luxury hotel.
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Dealer's Auerbach exhibition underlines artist's strong link with his sitters
29 August 2022'Frank Auerbach: The Sitters' at Piano Nobile includes over 40 paintings and drawings with around a third of the works for sale.
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Raise your glass to John Nash
27 June 2022Recent biography, major show and strong auction prices suggest younger Nash is on the rise.
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Doggett record broken twice
27 June 2022Demand continues to grow for works by Modern British artist Ruth Doggett (1881-1974) after her auction record was broken twice in the same auction.
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Agnews offers rediscovered Dürer drawing bought for $30 four years ago
22 November 2021This unpublished drawing by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) is being offered by art dealership Agnews as part of London Art Week (LAW).
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For he’s a holly good festive show fellow
22 November 2021A dab hand at Christmas shows, Andrew Singleton of Suffolk House Antiques in Yoxford has held one annually for over 25 years.
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5 Questions: Art dealer Will Elliott
22 November 2021Will Elliott set up Elliott Fine Art in 2020 following roles in Sotheby’s Old Master department and at Colnaghi London where he was director.
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Talent-spotter Feigen in focus
22 November 2021Group of works from the late US dealer’s collection demonstrates his wide range of interests.
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Danish Symbolist inspired by Rossetti and Burne-Jones
22 November 2021Few painters on the Danish art scene in the late 19th century felt a close affinity with contemporary English art. Symbolist painter Agnes Slott-Møller (1862-1937) was among the exceptions.