Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Chiswick Auctions attracts more Constable consignments including £70,000 pencil landscape
15 July 2019Just four months after identifying two tiny compositional drawings as the work of John Constable (1776- 1837) and selling them for close to £90,000, west London saleroom Chiswick Auctions struck gold again with a third ‘rediscovered’ landscape.
Lin thrives in Ludlow
15 July 2019A large canvas by the Taiwan-born British minimalist Richard Lin (1933-2011) sailed to £84,000 at Ludlow saleroom McCartneys (17% buyer’s premium), setting a house record in the process.
Kyffin Williams and Norman Cornish help saleroom's specialist sale
15 July 2019Tennants credited “fresh-to-market pictures with a strong provenance” as the driving force behind the notable results in its Modern and Contemporary Art sale.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including Churchill chairs, a portrait miniature collection and Sèvres porcelain
08 July 2019With estimates from £100-70,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Records fall in Mod Brit sales despite a blue-chip dip
08 July 2019After a bullish 2018 for the major Modern British art sales in London – during which Christie’s posted its strongest evening sale to date – results from the first ‘Mod Brit’ series of 2019 looked a little flat by comparison.
Sculptures shine as top 10 lots at Christie's
08 July 2019In what could well be a first, all 10 of Christie’s top evening sale lots on June 17 were sculptures. The group comprised the works of four blue-chip sculptors – Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink and Barry Flanagan – and contributed much of the overall total at £11.3m.
Lowry cricket match and Henry Moore’s Second World War drawing are top hits at Sotheby's
08 July 2019A Cricket Match (1938) by Mod Brit giant LS Lowry (1887-1976) was the fitting headliner at Sotheby’s. Offered in the midst of the Cricket World Cup, the 18in x 2ft (46 x 61cm) oil on canvas showing a back-street match played by local children in Salford sold for a mid-estimate £950,000 to a UK private buyer.
Eric Gill head and torso makes waves at Bonhams
08 July 2019Much of the pre-sale publicity from Bonhams’ June 15 Mod Brit focused on Eric Gill’s (1882-1942) Girl with a Comb in her Hair (1928) – a market-fresh carved head and torso valued at £200,000-300,000 and admired for its unusual pose and luxuriant wavy hair.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including novelty Victorian silver, a George III tea caddy and a rare Middle English manuscript
01 July 2019With estimates from £50-90,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
