The department hosts multiple specialist auctions each year focused on contemporary paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and multiples as well as single-owner collection sales. Since the inception of the Modern and Contemporary Art department, Halls Fine Art has seen them grow in size and success year upon year and it is now the leading department in the region.
Sir Kyffin Williams RA (1918-2006), Clynnog, signed bottom right 'KW', oil on canvas, 70 x 91cm
Notes: The work has been in private hands, in mid Wales, since the 1970s and this is the first time it has been on the open market. The village of Clynnog and the church depicted in the painting sits on the North coast of the Llyn Peninsula in Gwynedd. Sold for £13,000
Andy Warhol (American 1928-1987) Signed $2 Jefferson Bill, Wisconsin postage stamp and date stamed Apr 13 1976, signed in marker and stamped Andy Warhol verso, framed in plexiglass, bill measures 6.5 x 15.5 cm, frame 15 x 20.5 cm
Purchased from Galerie 32 in Nice and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the gallery dated 2019 Sold for £1,050
Edward Bell (British Contemporary) Diptych Sketch for Scary Monsters album artwork, mixed media collage, inscribed 'Bowie/David', signed and dated '80 lower right margin, 27 x 33 cm (SH), frame 35.5 x 41 cm Sold for £3,400
Joe Scarborough (b.1938), Corner shop and street scene, Sheffield. Oil on canvas, signed bottom left, dated 1971. (Verso- cinema scene oil), 45 x 70 cm, Sold for £4,000
HISTORIC POST SALE NEWS
THE DAVID BOWIE COLLECTION BY ARTIST EDWARD BELL Halls Fine Art timed auction The David Bowie Collection of Artist Edward Bell concluded on Sunday 1st August, with the final hammer price achieving over £94,000 (inc. fees).
WORLD FAMOUS ARTISTS GO DOWN A STORM Specialist Abigail Molenaar reports on her May auction of modern and contemporary art which attracted bidders from all over the world.
