Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Officer’s first-rank taste in artworks
09 January 2023Another slice of the collection which brought a Christopher Wood record comes up in Gloucestershire saleroom
Nude reveals the Cubist talents of Cissie Kean
09 January 2023Cissie Kean (1871-1961) dedicated her life to painting after sustaining a severe injury during a riding accident as a young adult.
Noble resident of County Wicklow for around 150 years
09 January 2023A portrait of a noblewoman catalogued as by a follower of Frans Pourbus the Younger, dated 1615, emerged as one of the highlights at Cheffins (24.5% buyer’s premium) in Cambridge.
Picture specialist hails ‘very encouraging’ multi-estimate prices for old-school landscapes
21 November 2022A clutch of good-quality traditional landscapes exceeded hopes at Exeter saleroom Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (25% buyer’s premium).
Hambling on red alert to take an auction record
14 November 2022The major talking point of Tennants’ (22/20% buyer’s premium) Modern & Contemporary Art sale was the £840,000 seascape by LS Lowry which was the highest total for a picture at the auction house and the second-highest price for any lot ever sold at the saleroom (see ATG No 2565).
Goodwin buyer ahead of the game
14 November 2022Tory politician acquired the artist’s watercolours before London dealer raised the profile
Sheila Fell is ‘on the crest of a wave’, says auctioneer
14 November 2022Outside the John Patten collection at Lawrences of Crewkerne on October 12 were several other good-quality pictures boosting the bottom line.
Viennese work surfaces as Steinbach celebrates 50 years
17 October 2022Vienna antiquarian bookseller Michael Steinbach is celebrating 50 years in the business and has produced a catalogue to mark the milestone.
London gallery Connaught Brown stages exhibition focusing on the human figure
17 October 2022The human figure has been continually re-imagined by artists, whether they have followed tradition or rebelled against it.
The web shop window: Francis Bacon poster for Tate 1962 exhibition
17 October 2022Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: Maxime Mauchamp of Tsukimi Gallery
17 October 2022Maxime Mauchamp of Tsukimi Gallery in Paris which offers Japanese works of art from the 20th century to contemporary, including ceramics, metalworks and cloisonné enamel pieces
Three to look out for from Fine Art Society
17 October 2022Studio potter Waistel Cooper (1921-2003) is back in the spotlight at The Fine Art Society and leads a busy autumn programme at the gallery.
Birmingham fair reduces set-up from two days to one to maintain low costs for exhibitors
17 October 2022Thousands of visitors are expected to descend on the NEC in Birmingham next month for one of country’s larger vetted antiques and fine art fairs.
Keith Vaughan from a key period
03 October 2022A conscientious objector conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps in 1941, the artist Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was stationed at Ashton Gifford in Wiltshire then Malton in Yorkshire.
Bomberg on his travels
03 October 2022Over a dozen paintings by David Bomberg (1890-1957) are being offered on the market for the first time at Dreweatts.
Gaudier-Brzeska owned by a Courtauld emerges at Bellmans
03 October 2022Inspired by his trips to Richmond Park in south-west London, French-born sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) fashioned a number of deer sculptures.
Top-sellers in Welsh auction are both by painters who died young
03 October 2022Modern British art assembled over a lifetime by a Monmouthshire-based collector generated some decent competition in a timed online auction at Rogers Jones & Co (24% buyer’s premium).
Portrait by an islander who ended up becoming isolated
03 October 2022This portrait by Brenda Chamberlain (1912-71) will be offered in the sale of Welsh Art at Rogers Jones in Cardiff on November 19.
Master of tempera Southall tempts with watercolours too
03 October 2022A leading member of the Birmingham Group and closely associated with the Arts & Crafts movement, Joseph Southall (1861-1944) is probably best known for tempera painting – the painstaking medieval technique he helped revive.
Rowland Hilder landscape attracts bidders at Mallams
03 October 2022This typically wintry scene by the prolific artist Rowland Hilder (1905-93) was the star lot of Mallams’ (25% buyer’s premium) Modern Living sale.