Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
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Livestock painter Boultbee shows his natural attraction
07 October 2019Many figures involved in the booming 19th century art industry of livestock portraiture had no formal training.
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Avant-garde artist Dismorr at the forefront of demand
07 October 2019In a sale of Modern and Contemporary British art in south London, this undated work House and Trees below sold for a multi-estimate £5800.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for £3000 or under including Walter Shaw coastal scene
07 October 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales for £3000 or under, including a coastal view by Walter Shaw.
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Curtain call for Roy Oxlade
30 September 2019Roy Oxlade (1929- 2014) emerged in the 1950s as one of a distinguished group of painters, including Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, who studied under David Bomberg at Borough Polytechnic in London.
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Sri Lankan scenes emerge in Essex saleroom
30 September 2019Auction includes collection of Modernist works breaking away from south Asian tradition
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Becker price is a cut above
30 September 2019Harry Becker (1865-1928) is not well known outside East Anglia but he is much admired both for a skilled grasp of Impressionism and his choice of subject matter.
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‘Brother in brush’ art gains global following
30 September 2019This 21 x 15in (54 x 39cm) watercolour, below, probably depicting the New Julfa quarter of Isfahan, is by the Armenian-Iranian painter Sumbat Kiureghian (1913- 99).
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2000 including Paul Sandby sketch
30 September 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £2000, including a pen and ink wash by Paul Sandby.
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Take a trip to Scarborough
30 September 2019Before he learnt to paint, Sheffield-born artist Joe Scarborough (b.1938) was a laboratory assistant at Batchelors, the processed food company, then a face worker at the Thorpe Hesley colliery.
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Soap star’s secret Mod Brit cache
23 September 2019Emmerdale actor’s love of Ayrton and circle seen at Tetsworth estate sale
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Kelly now enjoying the Lakes limelight
23 September 2019The prolific artist Percy Kelly (1918-93) was averse to the limelight and only a few of his paintings were shown publicly during his life. But a major retrospective at the Tullie House gallery Carlisle in 2015 and a birth centenary last year has helped raise the Cumbrian artist’s profile.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2200 including an oil by English Vorticist Frederick Etchells
23 September 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £2200, including an unsigned oil on board, attributed to the English Vorticist Frederick Etchells.
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Courageous bids on a pale ale horse painting at Woolley & Wallis
16 September 2019Reinagle’s equine portrait painted in Reading brewery brings £15,000 at Salisbury sale
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Movements in the market – for property and art
16 September 2019A busier than usual summer for the local housing market appeared to boost both vendor consignments and bidding at Market Harborough auctioneers Gildings (18% buyer’s premium).
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On the scent of Emms - sporting scene hunted out at auction
16 September 2019It was while working as a studio assistant to Lord Leighton in the early 1860s that John Emms (1841-1912) travelled to Lyndhurst in the New Forest, a trip that would define his career as a painter of dog portraits and sporting scenes.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including a painting by mountaineer-artist Bill Peascod
16 September 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £3000.
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Lowry signed limited edition prints and drawings bring good returns at auction
09 September 2019Before an artist achieves ‘blue chip’ status, there is often a watershed moment in the market – a result – that makes people sit up and take note. For the Salford painter LS Lowry (1887-1976) this was the purchase of 'Going To The Match' in 1999 at Sotheby’s by the Professional Footballers’ Association.
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Contrasting images come together for pleasing sale results
09 September 2019These two portraits – one painted in colourful hues by a known hand, the other unattributed and executed in monochrome – were the star picture lots at a lively auction in East Sussex.
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Lesson in provenance importance
02 September 2019Teacher’s single-owner collection stands out as part of Modern and Contemporary art sale.
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Fashionable woman is all the rage at auction
02 September 2019Estimated at £100-150, this mid-20th century portrait of a fashionably dressed young woman attracted a flurry of bids at Sherborne saleroom Charterhouse (25% buyer’s premium).