Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Six lots to watch at auction this week including a dolls house, 200 halfcrowns and a Gallé vase
18 March 2019With estimates from £400-8000, here are six previews from upcoming sales this week.
Previews: £501 - £2000
18 March 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £2001 - £5000
18 March 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
18 March 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Buyers go to great lengths to acquire portraits with a personal connection to the sitter
18 March 2019Some areas of the secondary pictures market march to their own beat, appearing to defy the usual forces that determine value. Ancestral paintings are such a category.
Previews: £30,000 plus
18 March 2019A selection of post-war Italian pieces from the interiors of Casa Lucano, a large apartment in Milan designed by Gio Ponti in 1951, will be offered in a joint auction by Phillips and Italian auction house Cambi in London on March 21.
Rare work by Marie-Louise von Motesiczky draws admirers at Chiswick Auctions
18 March 2019Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-96) was one of those artists who took little pleasure in selling their work. Indeed, Motesiczky’s obituary in The Independent described her “aristocratic disdain for the marketplace” and stated that “while she half welcomed exhibitions, they remained uncomfortable experiences… she never needed to sell her paintings, indeed she preferred to keep them around her.”
Affordable art: Three works priced at £1000 and under in regional auctions including a head study by Victorian painter Joshua Hargrave Sams Mann
18 March 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales at £1000 and below, including an oval oil head study by the Victorian painter Joshua Hargrave Sams Mann (1826-88).
Previews: Up to £500
18 March 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including prestigious Georgian-style entrance gates and a Charles II sterling silver tankard
11 March 2019With estimates from £500-25,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Craigie Aitchison is a good man to cross
11 March 2019Scottish artist Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009) painted few subjects more obsessively throughout his career than the crucifixion.
Cupboard opens up interest in Frederick Gore and Frank Avary Wilson
11 March 2019Post-war art stored in a cupboard for “many years” by an academic institution in Leicestershire drew strong bidding for two British artists in particular at Derbyshire saleroom Hansons (20% buyer’s premium).
Modern British female artists: the auction scene
11 March 2019Women artists – historically overlooked in scholarship and undervalued on the market – have emerged more and more at auction over the last few years.
Sheila Robinson – an artist tutored by Bawden – doubles estimate at Cheffins
11 March 2019A 16 x 15in (42 x 38cm) linocut by Great Bardfield artist Sheila Robinson (1925-88) more than doubled its estimate to sell for £1000 at Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) of Cambridge.