Art Market

It is often said there is a strict hierarchy for the prices of game bird pictures by the great ornithological artist Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935).

Oil bought by the vendor directly from the artist Lucy Harwood features a still-life on the reverse

Tennants offered a well-received 70-lot sale dedicated to views mostly of Yorkshire from a private collection last month.

Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, has been a favourite subject in art since ancient times.

More Mod Brit delights from the Freer collection kept in a house full to bursting point

Portraits boosted takings at Mallams’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest picture sale in Oxford.

Famous for the sort of graffiti that morphs into street art and critical acclaim, Banksy is now bringing in big money in the form of screenprints

While Banksy prints abound at auction, the number of original works that emerge is understandably much less.

The live webcast auction of Urban and Contemporary art held by Tate Ward (25% buyer’s premium) on March 24 proved well timed, coming just a day after Christie’s sold Banksy’s 'Game Changer' for £14.4m.

Bonhams (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) has been offering works by Banksy for some time now in a number of different sale types including Contemporary art auctions and specialist print offerings.

Among the Banksy works sold outside London recently was a screenprint of Trolleys that made £40,000 at Tennants’ (20% buyer’s premium) of Leyburn in North Yorkshire.

This image of children swinging along a watch tower was part of Banksy’s ‘Walled Off’ project that relates to the West Bank barrier between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

A number of Banksy’s earlier prints from the early 2000s feature the subject of a rat.

View of The Great Comet by George Buchanan Wollaston flies high at London saleroom Roseberys

Drawings by the great fell-walking guidebook author catch the mood of escapism

The city of Liverpool holds a special place in the oeuvre of John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93).

The first fine art sale of 2021 at Reeman Dansie (20% buyer’s premium) will be remembered for the spectacular £100,000 bid for a Mary Beale (1633-99) work.

Traditional high-society portrait by Sir Oswald Birley finds modern-day auction fans including an overseas buyer

Algernon Mayow Talmage (1871-1939) is probably not the most familiar name in the canon of Modern British artists, but some believe he is undervalued.

Collection in Cheltenham auction is latest in a series of valuable consignments with Ford family distinguished provenance