Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Five plus three equals eight auctions both live and online
06 March 2023Christie’s celebrates Asia Week New York with eight auctions: five live and three online
Catching Hindu and Muslim court traditions
06 March 2023For its 13th annual Asia Week New York exhibition, dealership Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch will offer 44 paintings reflecting the Hindu and Muslim court traditions of India
Reach for the sky with a celestial single-owner collection
06 March 2023Headlining Sotheby’s Asia Week New York line up is the 23-lot single-owner auction Celestial Colors. The Cadle Family Collection of Chinese Monochromes.
The plum garden that inspired van Gogh
06 March 2023For Asia Week New York, Heritage will offer a collection of Japanese woodblock prints, cloisonné, Chinese textiles, Tibetan bronzes, jades and other items.
Japanese art at the end of the Edo period
06 March 2023Sebastian Izzard LLC celebrates 25 years with an exhibition of 19th century Japanese paintings and prints during AWNY from March 17-24 on East 76th Street.
Channel enlightening energies through sculpture
06 March 2023During Asia Week New York, local dealer Kapoor Galleries presents Divine Gestures: Channels of Enlightenment, an exhibition of sculptural works
Auction action moves from idyllic countryside to rugged mountains
20 February 2023Two Henry Lamb (1883-1960) landscapes, unseen in public since the early 1960s, attracted a flurry of bids
The web shop window: A Meiji period ‘living doll’
20 February 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Furniture with a backstory viewed in full focus
20 February 2023A footstool owned by Ringo Starr, a chair from the set of Casablanca and a Jean Cocteau wooden candelabra made for the home of Igor Stravinsky feature in a selection of furniture with intriguing histories at New York gallery ‘B’ Dry Goods.
Gallery takes transatlantic paths to abstraction
20 February 2023The colourful and dynamic 1988 canvas 'Hydaspes' by Gillian Ayres (1930-2018) or the geometric order and symmetry of Alfred Jensen’s (1903-81) work from 1966, 'Doric Order' – which do you prefer?
Sickert disciple given own show
20 February 2023Cardiff gallery holds Morland Lewis exhibition over 80 years since his last known dedicated display
5 Questions: vintage and retro dealer Rachel Toy
20 February 2023Rachel Toy’s love of vintage started with trips to car boots sales with her mum in the 1980s and ignited a particular interest in 1960s and 1970s homeware. Today she runs Rachel’s Vintage Retro based in Pitstone in east Buckinghamshire.
Lynn Chadwick bronzes taken into account
13 February 2023Many of the best-sellers at Roseberys’ (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) auction of Modern British and 20th century art in south London came from the collection of former Wall Street banker Geoffrey Elliott (1939-2021) and his wife Fay.
John Boyd’s fishermen prove a catch
13 February 2023Contemporary artist created a distinctive range of compositions showing men cradling model boats
Wooden netsuke take centre stage after strict antique ivory trade regulations kick in
30 January 2023With the ivory versions now heavily restricted, a New York auction provided a test of the current market
Noble resident of County Wicklow for around 150 years
09 January 2023A portrait of a noblewoman catalogued as by a follower of Frans Pourbus the Younger, dated 1615, emerged as one of the highlights at Cheffins (24.5% buyer’s premium) in Cambridge.
Officer’s first-rank taste in artworks
09 January 2023Another slice of the collection which brought a Christopher Wood record comes up in Gloucestershire saleroom
Nude reveals the Cubist talents of Cissie Kean
09 January 2023Cissie Kean (1871-1961) dedicated her life to painting after sustaining a severe injury during a riding accident as a young adult.
Picture specialist hails ‘very encouraging’ multi-estimate prices for old-school landscapes
21 November 2022A clutch of good-quality traditional landscapes exceeded hopes at Exeter saleroom Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (25% buyer’s premium).
Goodwin buyer ahead of the game
14 November 2022Tory politician acquired the artist’s watercolours before London dealer raised the profile