Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
ART MARKET: Make your escape to the country
19 November 2018Spotlight on art offered at Bishton Hall on-site auction underlines appeal of a grand home.
Prints lead northern rising
19 November 2018Prints by Modern British artists are often touted as an affordable way-in for collectors on a budget, but it seems this is not always the case for northern powerhouse LS Lowry (1887-1976).
Celtic fringe benefits: Welsh Sale success
19 November 2018It has been a bullish year for Welsh art and antiques, according to auction house Rogers Jones (24% buyer’s premium), which broke the £1m barrier for the first time this year across three dedicated sales.
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £1000 including a sought-after Modern British gouache
15 November 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £1000 and three upcoming lots, including a gouache that set an auction record for the artist Ray Howard-Jones.
Explorer Hanbury-Tenison comes closer to home for his taste in art
12 November 2018Alongside living with bushmen in Africa, visiting 33 native tribes in Brazil and riding the length of the Great Wall of China, the Cornish-based explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison (b.1936) also found time to pursue another passion – one much closer to home.
Newlyn School art offered at auction in nearby Penzance
12 November 2018Edwin Harris (1855-1906) is one name that did not feature in the Robin Hanbury-Tenison collection of Newlyn School art at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (see main story in this section).
Bawden farm reaps reward at Kent auction
12 November 2018Work by the community of mid-20th century painters in Essex known as the Great Bardfield Artists fetches strong sums on the secondary market.
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £1000
12 November 2018Three modestly valued works in regional sales.
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £1000 including a Victorian landscape showing hop houses in Kent
08 November 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £1000 and three upcoming lots, including a oil painting of oast houses in a Kentish landscape by Edward H Niemann.
The importance of provenance as two works set multi-estimate sums at Bonhams
29 October 2018Provenance proved the key component for two paintings that achieved multi-estimate sums at Bonhams (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) in London.
Bidding for Evelyn Ince shows sign of female artists in demand
29 October 2018The current demand for female artists was in evidence at Henry Adams (20% buyer’s premium) of Chichester when a work by Evelyn Ince (1886-1941) went under the hammer.
Saleroom selection: Three works under £650 in regional sales including a George-William Thornley view of Margate
29 October 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £6500 and three upcoming lots offered over the next fortnight, including a painting of Margate by George-William Thornley.