Auction Highlights from Dreweatts 1759 & Forum Auctions' The British Sale

Our first featured lot from our auction highlights of Dreweatts 1759 and Forum Auctions' The British Sale is this signed, dated and numbered 1971 screenprint of English painter Bridget Riley's Elongated Triangles 6. This was part of a series of 6 prints of different colour combinations, originally designed to be exhibited in two's and three's and is a fantastic example of the Op-Art form she helped pioneer. This excellent edition beat it's £6,000 estimate for a hammer price of £10,000.

Our second featured lot this week from our auction highlights of Dreweatts 1759 & Forum Auctions' The British Sale, powered by Auction Marketer, is this excellent 1969 lithograph, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 60, of Barbara Hepworth's Porthmeor (from Twelve Lithographs). The modernist artist and sculptor was a leading figure in the colony of artists residing in St Ives during the Second World War. This captivating, abstract piece hit a final hammer price of £6,500.

The third featured lot from this week's auction highlights of Dreweatts 1759 & Forum Auctions' The British Sale is this mesmerising untitled, signed and dated, 1966 Gouache paint on paper piece by Bernard Cohen. Regarded as one of the leading British abstract artists of his time, Cohen's work as a 'storyteller and creator of pictorial theatre' is exhibited all over the world including London's The Tate Gallery, Geneva's Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, and Lisbon's Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. This lot doubled it's estimate of £1,500 for a fantastic hammer price of £3,000.

The fourth featured lot from our auction highlights of Dreweatts 1759 & Forum Auctions' The British Sale is this alluring 2022, signed and numbered in pencil, mixed-media print with hand-embellishments of James McQueen's If You Ever Leave Me, I'm Coming With You. Harnessing the alluring magic of an old book and a powerful quote, this exciting limited edition artwork by mysterious artist James McQueen shone at auction, nearly tripling it's £1,400 estimate for a hammer price of £4,000.

Our fifth and final featured lot in our auction highlights from Dreweatts 1759 & Forum Auctions' The British Sale, powered by Auction Marketer, is this fascinating complete portfolio of all eight woodcuts in Michael Rothenstein's 1972 Suns and Moons portfolio. Signed in pencil and numbered from an edition of 85, each woodcut illustrates an accompanying poem chosen by the artist. Son of celebrated portraitist Sir William Rothenstein, Michael earned a name as one of Britain's most experimental printmakers. This lot more than tripled it's £700 estimate for a closing price of £2,400.