Art Market

Scottish Colourist likened the French port to Iona – but with more time to paint given the weather

Roseberys (26% buyer’s premium) posted the second-highest auction price for Peter Rose Pulham (1910-56) at its most recent sale of Modern British & 20th Century Art.

Spotlight on a couple of shop donations that both ended up making £20,000 hammer prices

Some of the artist’s most modern and dramatic works were derived from his social concerns

The helmets and uniforms depicted in this oil study are clues to its strong performance at Cirencester saleroom Moore Allen & Innocent (21% buyer’s premium) on December 6.

A copy of a lost painting that has been described as one of the most haunting and poignant depictions of Irish involvement in the First World War attracted a flurry of bids at Clevedon Salerooms (22% buyer’s premium) in Bristol.

Tiny portrait thought to show a Spanish noblewoman was bought at a local school in the 1970s

One of the most eyecatching collections of Impressionist and Modern art sold at a provincial auction at the end of last year comprised 17 lots from the late Ralph Bateman.

Rembrandt prints were a prominent feature of the London Old Master sales in December.

Quirky subjects generate the most eye-catching results at the latest Old Master auction series

One of the Old Masters attracting significant interest at Lyon & Turnbull’s (25/20% buyer’s premium) latest Five Centuries sale in Edinburgh was a small still-life that drew strong competition against a £5000-8000 estimate.

A couple of views of London were strongly contested at the latest Old Master auction series in the capital.

Bonhams’ (28/27% buyer’s premium) latest Old Master sale at its New Bond Street rooms was hard going, with almost half the lots unsold and two-thirds of those that did get away either going on or below their low estimate.

The highest auction prices for Mary Adshead (1904-95) all came at Sotheby’s Olympia back in 2006.

A group of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) watercolours and drawings were sold on behalf of the Glasgow Art Club at Lyon & Turnbull’s (26% buyer’s premium) Design since 1860 sale in Edinburgh.

Auctioneer congratulates ex-pat bidder in Welsh as she buys a Kyffin Williams for the first time

Up in North Yorkshire, it was a view of a landscape down south that led Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) British, European & Sporting Art sale.