Oil, Acrylic paintings & Mixed Media

While a bountiful Cedric Morris still life was the headline lot at Lyon & Turnbull’s (27/26% buyer’s premium) latest Modern Made sale, it wasn’t the only flower painting that drew keen interest at the auction.

A detailed and colourful flower study by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) attracted fervent competition at Lyon & Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction in London.

Lambeth’s Garden Museum is hoping to raise £420,000 to purchase a portrait of the gardener and plantsman John Ystumllyn (1736-86/88), one of the earliest recorded black gardeners in Britain.

Alfred Parsons (1847-1920) is generally considered a solidly collectable Victorian-Edwardian artist but has never been in the same league as the major masters of the age, at least in terms of auction prices.

This summer Sotheby’s will offer what is billed as ‘the most valuable single collection ever offered in London’.

A fragmented Old Master portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654), with the head and shoulders of the sitter cut out, took a hammer price of €650,000 (£563,305) at Dorotheum.

Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland offered what was billed as “the most comprehensive private holding of works by John Tunnard (1900-71) ever to come to the market” this week.

A rediscovered naïve painting showing Marlborough College in the years before the school was founded has been sold by a dealer to the college itself.

Among the Modern British art highlights sold in the English regions so far this spring was a striking landscape that made a significant sum for an early Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) at Kinghams' (26% buyer’s premium) latest British Art & Design sale.

The charity Art UK has completed its national project to record and digitise murals and street art across the country.