Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Winning a £18,000 battle for The War of the Worlds
28 January 2017ORIGINAL posters for the first release of the 1953 Paramount sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds are something of a holy grail in the collecting market.
Equestrian art kept on tight rein
28 January 2017Auction house sets realistic estimates in a market much changed since strong 1980s running
International brigade advances
21 January 2017With Mod Brits making the headlines, works from the wider world also impress in the regions
Lakeland Fell scales sale heights
14 January 2017Landscape painter lauded by LS Lowry makes the running among local artists in Cumbria
A mighty Mod Brit market
31 December 2016Records tumble in trio of main sales held in the major London rooms
Rare Nelson miniature portrait surfaces and sells at auction for £14,000
29 November 2016A small and previously unrecorded portrait of Lord Nelson sold for £14,000 at Charles Miller’s latest Maritime and Scientific sale in West Kensington.
London antiquities sales set sail with Bonhams offering ancient Egyptian model boat
24 November 2016Specialist sales of antiquities in London kick off at Bonhams later this month with a 192-lot auction in New Bond Street on November 30.
Cedric Morris blossoms in the saleroom with two auction records set in 48 hours
15 April 2016In the space of just 48 hours, two paintings by the self-taught Welsh artist and horticulturalist Cedric Morris (1889-1982) raised the auction bar for his work to a new level.
Sandby tops Hooton Pagnell dispersal
10 December 2015Topping Bonhams Knightsbridge’s marathon nine-hour sale of items from Hooton Pagnell Hall in South Yorkshire was this 20½in x 2ft 5in (52 x 76cm) watercolour and gouache work by Paul Sandby (1730-1809).
Helleu portrait emerges at Sworders
07 December 2015Paul César Helleu (1859-1927) is best known for his Belle Epoque portraits of beautiful society women.
Devastating fire at Surrey centre
01 December 2015A major fire has caused significant damage to Bourne Mill Antiques Centre, home to about 70 dealers in Farnham, Surrey.
Penman looks to design at Chelsea
30 November 2015Penman Fairs will launch a new London event for 2016 called ‘Art, Antiques & Design’.
Christie’s change antiquities schedule
18 November 2015Christie’s have announced major changes to their antiquities sales calendar in London and New York.
Blue john bonanza at Fellows in Birmingham
19 August 2015Quite possibly the largest sale of Derbyshire blue john ever held is going under the hammer at Fellows of Birmingham.
Top cellar: restituted Welby salt brings £850,000
23 July 2015It was included in one of the Ashmolean Museum’s greatest bequests but this magnificent salt cellar was subsequently discovered to be Nazi loot. Recently restituted, it soared to £850,000 at auction.
Luba lights up Christie’s Exceptional sale at £5.4m
13 July 2015This striking 2ft 1½in (64.4cm) high Luba figural bowstand made c.1880 by the Warua Master was the runaway star of London’s high season sales.
Marc Newson’s Lockheed Lounge makes record for a living designer at £2.1m
06 May 2015The Lockheed Lounge by Australian designer Marc Newson beat its own record as the most expensive work to sell at auction by a living designer when it fetched £2.1m at Phillips in London.
Sweet scent for best of 18th century France
02 May 2015Briefly owned by Louis XVI, who intended them for the Louvre, this 13in (33.5cm) high pair of fine gilt-bronze-mounted kakiemon porcelain and Egyptian porphyry brûle parfums sold for £1.65m at Sotheby’s in London this week.
Museum acquires Dickens’ desk
21 April 2015The writing desk and chair used by Charles Dickens as he penned a number of his later classics have been bought by a museum based at the author’s former central London home.
Christie’s withdraw lots after antiquities alert
14 April 2015Four lots were withdrawn at the eleventh hour by Christie’s last week amid fresh allegations in the media over illicit antiquities at auction.