Modern British Art

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Barbara Hepworth’s 'The Aegean Suite' (1971), a series of lithographs based on her impressions of Greece, is currently on offer at Belgrave St Ives.

A trio of unsigned First World War prints by CRW Nevinson (1889-1946) sold for multi-estimate sums in a two-day sale at Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester.

Of all the things you might expect to find in a kitchen cupboard, an original oil by Edward Seago (1910-74) is probably not one of them.

Sunlight after Storm, Windsor, below, is among the pieces on offer at Portland Gallery’s exhibition of Edward Seago paintings. The gallery is the exclusive representative of the artist’s estate and this show, running from June 8- July 6, follows ones in April 2016 and June 2014.

This drawing, below, of the celebrated Danish ballerina Ulla Poulsen is among the pieces on offer from Sim Fine Art’s online exhibition of works by Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856-1937).

A trademark bronze sculpture by Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was the best-seller at a Modern and Contemporary Art & Design auction held by Chorley’s (20% buyer’s premium) at Prinknash Abbey Park in Gloucestershire.

British artists dominated Sworders’ (23% buyer’s premium) Modern & Contemporary prints sale in Essex, with works by Banksy, Patrick Hughes, Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Grayson Perry all getting away.

A stellar single-owner offering of works by the Scottish Colourists will be offered in a dedicated sale at Sotheby’s.

Leading names in British art dealing are returning to the British Art Fair, prompting a rise in exhibitor numbers for the next revamped event.

Osborne Samuel hosts the first major selling show of works by John Craxton (1922-2009) for 25 years this month.

For roughly 30 years the London gallery Messum’s has worked with modern British painter Rose Hilton (b.1931) to establish her work on its own merits.

Jeremy Green of The Canon Gallery and Mark Goodman of Goodman Fine Art have joined forces for an exhibition of oils and watercolours at Goodman’s new space on Duke Street.

Barbara Jones joins a growing band whose peacetime work is also now in strong demand.

A 1940 painting of Valle Crucis Abbey is one of the key pictures in Bohun Gallery’s exhibition 'John Piper: A Very English Artist'.

Richard Green takes full advantage of its two New Bond Street galleries this month with a pair of exhibitions, both focusing on 20th century painting.

Well-situated on the North Yorkshire coast, Scarborough saleroom David Duggleby (21% buyer’s premium) is the regular recipient of pictures associated with one of the area’s biggest artistic exports.

The paintings of Welsh landscape artist Kyffin Williams (1918-2006) are much in evidence in this, the year of his centenary, and nowhere so much as in his native land.