Art Market

A crayon portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) surfaced at Oxford saleroom Mallams (22.5% buyer’s premium) together with another of the sitter’s father.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Graham Sutherland watercolour.

Focus on one of only two notable women painters to be associated with the Norwich School.

Simple still-life of flowers showcases the Mod Brit artist’s love of colour and luminosity

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Stanley Spencer sketch.

A 1940s view of Swansea described as ‘historically important’ by the auction house which sold it featured among some good results for 20th century Welsh art in the regions.

Morris record takes the headlines but his pupil is also in demand at same sale.

The year after Cedric Morris painted his verdant Foxgloves in 1932, a severe drought cut through much of southern Britain. The parched soil and the hardship it brought were a source of artistic inspiration for those who painted the form and the character of the rural landscape.

Classic summer scene by artist known for neighbourhood views makes rare appearance

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales for under £3000 including an unusual Peter Blake work printed on tin.

The old-fashioned country house sale hardly ever fails to cause excitement. The on-the-premises sale of contents from Athelhampton House, a Tudor manor house in Puddletown, Dorset, was no exception.

Dominating a grand lecture hall of one of France’s oldest universities is a classical fresco of the god Apollo and the Muses on Parnasses, created at the turn of the 20th century by French artist Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929).

Cubist work by often-overlooked artist fuels keen bidding before heading to California.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales for £3000 or under, including a Francis Bacon lithograph.

Two modestly estimated watercolours by the Victorian ornithological painter Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) emerged as the star sellers in an auction in South Yorkshire.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales for £1250 or under, including an Agnes Miller Parker woodcut.

Oil paintings by two significant names in Modern British art made their first appearances on the market in decades at an auction in Dorset.

“Although hailing from the north west of England and having close ties to many of the important Northern artists, Geoffrey Key (b.1941) has never really strived to be associated with this school and as such has a more universal, broader appeal and freedom to expand his painting horizon.”

A near sell-out show at The Redfern Gallery in London in 1963 immediately established Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), the Dublin-born painter, as a star of the London art scene at the age of just 27.

Views of processions, pageants and parades tend to attract special interest at auction, such as this view of an Indian procession bid to £6800 in Gloucestershire.