Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
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Sexy and sultry Flint tempts buyer
09 March 2020Textbook watercolour by the British artist takes one of his higher prices in recent years.
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Sybil Atteck labourer works well to sell
09 March 2020This portrait study is by Sybil Atteck (1911-75), a pioneering artist in Trinidad and Tobago of Chinese descent known for her work in watercolour.
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Geoffroy shows his touch of class
09 March 2020The artist Henri Jules Jean Geoffroy (1853-1924), known as ‘Géo’, was a member of the French Naturalist movement and was best known for his paintings of Parisian children and daily urban life.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2500 including an Edith Lawrence linocut
09 March 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Edith Lawrence linocut.
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Gwyneth Johnstone's frenetic scene of London home hits auction high in Cambridge sale
02 March 2020Auction prices are on the rise for the late Norfolk artist Gwyneth Johnstone (1914-2010), daughter of the artist Augustus John and niece of the Welsh painter Gwen John.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1000 including a typical Trevor Grimshaw work
02 March 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Trevor Grimshaw steam train.
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Scottish Colourist's view of Villefranche exceeds estimate at Bellmans
02 March 2020Scottish Colourist George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931) is best known for his strong and vibrant still-lifes but landscapes also feature significantly in his oeuvre – and collectors will spend big to acquire the highest-quality examples.
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Karl Hofer expresses himself at Taunton auction
02 March 2020This late drawing by Karl Hofer (1878-1955), the German Expressionist painter who was branded a creator of ‘degenerate art’ by the Nazis, was one of dozens consigned by his family to Taunton saleroom Greenslade Taylor Hunt (19.5% buyer’s premium).
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2500 including a Kenneth Newton still-life
24 February 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Kenneth Newton still-life.
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From fisherfolk to high society
24 February 2020The 19th century Dutch painter Jozef Israëls (1824-1911), a leading member of the Hague School group of landscape painters, was best known for his realistic and sympathetic portrayals of the Dutch peasantry and fisherfolk.
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Painter portrays a lover
24 February 2020This early-20th century portrait by Ronald Ossory Dunlop (1894-1973) depicts the actor and artist Jean Shepeard (1904-89).
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All calm after a splitting headache
24 February 2020Pair of Abstract oils by Richard Smith had been cut in two but that did not deter the bidders.
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Varley the watercolour wonder
17 February 2020Group of paintings by one of the less well-known masters of the medium comes to light
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Many faces of Mod Brit art
17 February 2020Modestly catalogued as English School, 1960s, a Modern British study of a head emerged as one of the top-selling pictures at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium) in Stansted Mountfitchet.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1250 including a Marjorie Bruford oil
17 February 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Marjorie Bruford Cornish village scene.
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Hockney snowbound print drifts into Lots Road
17 February 2020This large lithograph forms part of the Weather Series, a suite of prints created by David Hockney (b.1937) in 1973.
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'New prints' refresh Japanese subjects
17 February 2020Shin-hanga, meaning ‘new prints’, emerged in Japan during the early 20th century. Aimed at Western tastes, the artistic movement combined the traditional colourful woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e with nostalgic and romanticised Japanese subjects.
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Burgess portrait of daughter draws serious attention in Dorset
17 February 2020The Victorian artist John Bagnold Burgess (1829- 97), grandson of a painter who counted Thomas Gainsborough among his pupils, was best known as a painter of genre scenes.
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Dorothea Sharp still-life blooms with bold colour in Surrey
17 February 2020As well as painting sunny pictures of children on the beaches of Cornwall, Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955) frequently turned her paintbrush to still-lifes.
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Late Cedric Morris comes into bloom
10 February 2020Eight-strong group by the artist-plantsman provides market pointer for his post-1930s work