Modern British Art

The stand-free fair, 'Eye of the Collector', returns to London this May for its third physical edition.

Amy Scanlon, head of Modern and Contemporary art at Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet, discusses her affection for Bawden prints

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

A small Modern British art fair is launching in Aldeburgh this summer to coincide with the town’s historic music festival.

Simple Salford street scene dating from year after he left art school is now at £70,000 hammer price level

Even in relatively strong sectors of the art market like Modern British pictures the twin attractions of market freshness and attainable estimates remain key factors.

A personal collection of Second World War pictures compiled by dealer John Noott over more than 40 years is on display at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

Interest from both the UK and abroad emerged in Buckinghamshire when two abstract paintings by Paul Feiler (1918-2013) came up at a recent Claydon Auctioneers (19.5% buyer’s premium) sale.

'Trees' by Karl Weschke is among the pictures featured in Belgrave St Ives’ annual exhibition on the Cornish seaside town and Modern British art.

Much has been made of the fact that in 1988 Keith Haring produced a series of 10 signed and dated serigraphs with texts by the veteran writer William Burroughs with the title 'Apocalypse'.

'Harbour and Room' (1931), a watercolour and pencil on paper by Paul Nash (1889-1946), is included in Piano Nobile’s latest works on paper exhibition.

The naturalistic landscapes and moody urban scenes of Algernon Cecil Newton (1880-1968) have provided a boon to both London and regional salerooms for well over a decade now.

Organisers of Connect Fair also take part as exhibitors among a ‘young and lively’ group from across the UK

A couple of prints by leading names from the early 20th century drew attention at recent regional sales despite some notable condition issues.

Two Henry Lamb (1883-1960) landscapes, unseen in public since the early 1960s, attracted a flurry of bids

Cardiff gallery holds Morland Lewis exhibition over 80 years since his last known dedicated display

An unidentified but engaging portrait of a young boy that was bought by art dealer Rupert Maas at a regional auction last year has been restored and fully attributed to Harold Knight (1874-1961).