Art Painting
Artist’s double-sided painting fetches £162,500
A two-sided painting by a renowned East Anglian artist has sold at auction for more than three times its estimated sale price.
Cambridge-based auctioneers Cheffins said the Cedric Morris artwork, which had never been sold on the open market before, fetched £162,500 and showed the artist’s “continued popularity”.
Morris (1889-1982), who founded the East Anglian School of Painting & Drawing in Essex before moving it to Suffolk, was believed to have finished the artwork in the 1930s before gifting it to his student, Bettina Shaw-Lawrence.
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Two Vincent van Gogh paintings created in the months after the Dutch artist mutilated his ear will be exhibited in London for the first time.
The works, The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles and The Ward in the Hospital at Arles, would appear at the Courtauld Gallery from next month, the Art Newspaper reported.
A previously unseen painting by David Hockney has been revealed for the first time before its unveiling in the biggest exhibition to be devoted to one of Britain’s foremost living artists.
Titled After Blake: Less is Known than People Think, the work will be among hundreds of previously unknown Hockneys that are to be displayed alongside his famous masterpieces at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris from April.
An accountant who painted a terrible portrait of his wife as a wedding gift has unexpectedly been inundated with dozens of art commissions from around the world.https://elb.the-ozone-project.com/static/load-cookie-with-consent.html#amp=1
Jamie Matthias, 41, started the side hustle off by accident and his wife Kate thought the portrait was so funny she posted it on social media.
But it suddenly received a lot of attention after people started commenting, liking and sharing the post.
