Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £900 including an 18th century print of a Joseph Wright of Derby masterwork
10 October 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £900 and three upcoming lots offered over the next fortnight, including a c.1768 engraving by William Pether after a masterwork by the great Joseph Wright of Derby.
Paris dancer swings into sale
08 October 2018Striking depiction of Folies Bergère entertainer is among eclectic selection offered in Sussex.
Poignant portrait of ‘doomed youth’ of the First World War
08 October 2018Pictures, trophies and other mementos were among the contents from a historic nursing home in south-west London dispersed at Ewbank’s (22.5% buyer’s premium).
Portrait subject spurs bidder to a high price
08 October 2018Standing proud in full riding wear, this early 20th century portrait of a female rider and her two terriers, below, struck a chord with bidders in Sussex.
Cursiter returns to his Orkney roots
08 October 2018The remote rocky islands of Orkney were a source of continued inspiration for the prolific Scottish painter Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976).
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £900 including watercolour by a Victorian ‘prodigy of manual skill’
03 October 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £900, including a Edmund George Warren watercolour of the New Forest, and three upcoming lots offered the next fortnight.
Saleroom selection: three works in regional sales under £900 including Basil Spence's view of the Vatican
01 October 2018Three modestly valued works in regional sales, all sold below £900 including a view of St Peters in the Vatican by Scottish architect Basil Spence.
Sekoto’s sensitivity rewarded at selective South Africa sale
01 October 2018Gerard Sekoto (1913-93) is cementing his place as one of the most bankable names in the field of South African art.
The wife of a Parliamentarian in portrait form
01 October 2018A portrait of a young Stuart woman, below, attributed to the Hungarian painter Johannes Priwitzer (fl.1626-35), topped the picture section in a two-day sale at Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) of Cambridge.
