Art Market

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

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

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

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 £3000 or under, including a Francis Bacon lithograph.

Much of Paula Rego’s (b.1935) work is concerned with narrative, as seen in this limited-edition lithograph of a girl reading a book.

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.

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

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

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.

“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.”

For a number of years, the Colchester-born artist Harry Becker (1865-1928) followed the conventional path of a professional artist, achieving significant success and exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy. But a growing disenchantment with London led to his ultimate departure in 1913 to Suffolk.

Artist famous for his busy panoramic scenes also profited from intimate female portraits

In a sale of Modern and Contemporary British art in south London, this undated work House and Trees below sold for a multi-estimate £5800.

Many figures involved in the booming 19th century art industry of livestock portraiture had no formal training.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales for £3000 or under, including a coastal view by Walter Shaw.

Auction includes collection of Modernist works breaking away from south Asian tradition

Harry Becker (1865-1928) is not well known outside East Anglia but he is much admired both for a skilled grasp of Impressionism and his choice of subject matter.

Before he learnt to paint, Sheffield-born artist Joe Scarborough (b.1938) was a laboratory assistant at Batchelors, the processed food company, then a face worker at the Thorpe Hesley colliery.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £2000, including a pen and ink wash by Paul Sandby.