Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Love of print format is in the Essex air
28 May 2018British artists dominated Sworders’ (23% buyer’s premium) Modern & Contemporary prints sale in Essex, with works by Banksy, Patrick Hughes, Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Grayson Perry all getting away.
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
28 May 2018ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £30,000 plus
28 May 2018A stellar single-owner offering of works by the Scottish Colourists will be offered in a dedicated sale at Sotheby’s.
Previews: Up to £500
28 May 2018ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Saleroom selection: three artworks under £500 including a Charles Lutyens oil painting
28 May 2018Three modestly valued works in regional sales including an oil painting by Charles Lutyens.
Pair portrays elegance of Yorkshire nobility
21 May 2018Guided at £200-400, a pair of 17th century British school portraits (one pictured below) went on to fetch £1150 each at Halls (20% buyer’s premium) of Shrewsbury.
Saleroom selection: three artworks under £500 including a George Faulkner Wetherbee landscape
21 May 2018Three modestly valued works in regional sales.
Cartoon and dreamlike scenes surface in Surrey
21 May 2018Private buying carried away two top-selling works at John Nicholson’s (24% buyer’s premium) in Haslemere, Surrey.
Women war artists in the frame
21 May 2018Barbara Jones joins a growing band whose peacetime work is also now in strong demand.
Saleroom selection: Three pictures under £500, including Hevezi's townscape of Stoke
14 May 2018Three modestly valued works in regional sales.
Miller duo displays strong Hamburg link
14 May 2018An early German whaling scene took top honours at marine specialist Charles Miller’s (20% buyer’s premium) May Day sale in West Kensington.
Oriental art experiences West to East buyer shift
14 May 2018Exotic visions are Orientalist art’s stock-in-trade. Bustling bazaars and colourful mosques, lavish harems and sun-drenched deserts populate the canvases in this field.
Egyptian art is a modern highlight
14 May 2018Modern Egyptian art emerged as a stand-out sector during Islamic Week. The leading lot of Sotheby’s 20th Century Art/Middle East sale was a work by pioneering painter Mahmoud Said (1897-1964), dubbed the father of Egyptian modernism.