Paintings specialist targets 250 lots for contemporary art auction
The paintings and prints specialist at a leading Shropshire fine art auction house is hoping to attract more than 250 lots for the company’s next live modern and contemporary art auction in October.
Abigail Molenaar is looking to build on a series of excellent prices achieved in the Halls Fine Art’s timed modern and contemporary art auction in April.
The auction saw an oil painting by contemporary Scottish artist James Harrigan of an Isle of Arran coastal scene sell for £2,300, an abstract composition by Gillian Ayres, CBE (1930-2018) make £1,800 and an artist’s proof by John Piper (1903-1992) of Carew Castle fetch £1,350.
Two stencil prints by mysterious British street artist Banksy also went under the hammer. ‘Diver Lovers, Dismaland 2015’ made £750 and ‘Golf Sale, Banksy Dismalland $1 Bill, showing the Tiananmen Square protest and stamped ‘Dismaland Bemusement Park’, sold for £450.
