Drawings & Pastels

Watercolour of Oxford by the Victorian arbiter of taste benefits from attractive estimate.

St James’s dealer conducts exhibition of topographical works by unknown Ripon artist

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art is staging a pop-up exhibition from September 13-October 7 of drawings by Adolph Menzel in Hamburg after an earlier staging was cut short by Covid restrictions.

Bid to £65,000 in a Sotheby’s (25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) sale that ran online from July 12-19 was the ink drawing by Ernest Shephard shown below.

A previously unknown sketchbook of watercolours and drawings relating to the California Gold Rush took £16,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Chiswick Auctions.

The sale at Nye & Company in Bloomfield, New Jersey, on September 7-8 includes Modern and Contemporary art and sculpture from the David and Laura Finn family collection.

Accessible art is the aim of North Yorkshire dealer who hopes to enthuse a younger crowd

Thomas Sandby’s (1721-98) architectural drawings are significant part of the artist’s oeuvre.

The market for drawings and watercolours, both modern and traditional, has long been regarded as delicate ground – sensitive towards estimates, market freshness and condition.

Among the 20th century works on paper generating demand at regional sales in the last few months was a Keith Vaughan (1912-77) study of a group of bathers.

Compared to oil paintings and watercolours, drawings by the Scottish Colourists seem to appear less often at auction.

A Picasso drawing found in a cupboard has been sold at a French auction house for €158,000 (£135,000) or €192,759 including buyer’s premium.

Bid to £4000 – 10 times low estimate – in a May 18 sale held by Tennants (22% buyer’s premium) of Leyburn were two albums of what were defined as grotesque-style caricature portraits.

Museums and collectors were not deterred by the Paris event’s date being pushed back.

A look at highlights from dealers and summer auctions in the UK.

Summer highlights from auctions and dealers.

“It is quite pathetic to see the Prince and Freda. His love is so obvious and undisguisable.”

One of only a small number of drawings by Michelangelo still remaining in private hands sold for €20m (£16.9m) at Christie’s Paris last week.