Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Missionary zeal and tsunami destruction at Christie's
28 January 2019An unusual Chinese School picture of a 17th century Dutch missionary scene led Christie’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) £2m sale of topographical pictures in London.
Affordable art: three works priced under £600 in regional auctions including a Will Charles Penn watercolour
28 January 2019Three modestly valued works sold in regional sales.
Cricket painting shows some of the very earliest days at the crease
28 January 2019An English School painting depicting one of the earliest venues in cricket was knocked down at £14,000 in a Winchester auction.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including an Art Nouveau cabinet and a novelty silver pencil by Tiffany
21 January 2019With estimates from £250 to £12,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Romantic landscape painter at the heart of a sale series
21 January 2019Much of the pre-sale interest in the 19th century paintings offered at the major London rooms centred on two landscapes by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) at Sotheby’s (25/20/12.9% buyer’s premium).
Bidder nets Singaporean fishing scene in Taunton
21 January 2019Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s (19.5% buyer’s premium) first sale of the year got off to a bright start with a Singaporean painting sailing to £19,000.
Affordable art: three works priced under £700 in regional auctions including a Hubert Coop watercolour
21 January 2019Three modestly valued works sold in regional sales.
Gerald Brockhurst portrait has star value to set an artist record in US auction
21 January 2019Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978) was already an established etcher when his captivating canvases of society women catapulted him to fame during the interwar years.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including George III mahogany wine cisterns, a sweetheart brooch and a Cedric Morris painting
14 January 2019With estimates from £150 to £20,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Burne-Jones stars at auction as first major London exhibition for over four decades opens
14 January 2019Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98) was the toast of London during the latest Victorian art sales held in the capital, where buyers continued to covet blue-chip Pre-Raphaelite art, market-fresh material – and invest in female names.