Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Healthy appetite for right Victorians
25 March 2017Rare painting by 19th century American artist achieves record price at Bonhams
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
25 March 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Glimpse of a vanished painting
25 March 2017A lithograph of David Roberts’ (1796-1864) lost painting The siege and destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans under the command of Titus took top honours at Staffordshire auction house Cuttlestones (17.5% buyer’s premium) on March 2-3.
Lamorna Birch coastal scene takes £3400
25 March 2017Among the picture highlights of Peter Wilson’s (24% buyer’s premium) Fine Art Sale on March 2 in Nantwich was a coastal sunset scene by prolific Birkenhead artist Samuel John Lamorna Birch (1869-1955).
Previews: £30,000 plus
25 March 2017Created by the distinguished clock-maker Edward East (1602-96), this c.1660 timepiece is one of the earliest-known pendulum clocks.
Previews: £501 - £2000
18 March 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £2001 - £5000
18 March 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
18 March 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £30,000 plus
18 March 2017Created after a design by William Kent for Lord Burlington’s Chiswick House, this set of four 19th century limestone urns on pedestals is estimated to fetch £20,000-40,000 in Summers Place Auctions’ sale on March 28 in Billingshurst, West Sussex.
Irish art on the road to recovery
18 March 2017Private buyers hold strong in Dublin despite Brexit concerns keeping northern dealers at bay
Generating younger buyers
18 March 2017Attracting new and younger buyers is the thinking behind Tennants’ (18.5% buyer’s premium) modern and contemporary art sales. Held three times a year, the auctions offer art by a range of painters and sculptors at affordable levels to encourage new buyers into the market, while also appealing to established collectors.
Minorca port scenes buck today’s market
18 March 2017Owing to today’s minimalist taste, Continental views of 19th century ports are not an easy sell. This pair of canvases proved otherwise when they topped Thomson Roddick’s (15% buyer’s premium) March 18 sale in Carlisle, Cumbria.
The 18th century Dublin shines in 21st century sale
18 March 2017Prints of Dublin as it would have looked in the late 18th century starred in an interiors sale held in the same modern-day city at Adam’s (20% buyer’s premium).
Previews: Up to £500
18 March 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Modern life is not at all rubbish
11 March 2017Forget the album: Great Bardfield artists help to create a sale sense of Cool Britannia in Essex
Irish couple stand out in Kent
04 March 2017Dillon painting of Inishmaan quay is surprise find among artist’s studio collection
Stagecoach scenes stand and deliver
25 February 2017Equestrian works remain firm favourites at auction for a handful of faithful collectors
Stage set for theatrical flourishes
18 February 2017Interior decorators among the bidders taking a fancy to West End producer’s artworks
How to beat any January bid blues
11 February 2017Tight belts normally dominate this time of year but Somerset auctioneers see an opportunity
Fighter ace soars to set a record
04 February 2017Portrait of Second World War pilot leads an impressive sale formation of military pictures