Modern British & Irish Art at Chiswick Auctions

Celebrating Homegrown Creativity

Our Modern British & Irish Art auctions chart a compelling story from the late 19th century to today. We offer paintings, works on paper and sculpture across landmark movements, schools and studios. From Camden Town to St Ives, and the School of London to the YBAs, our sales bring museum-quality names to an accessible marketplace. Collectors and institutions compete for works with strong provenance, exhibition history and condition.

Key Movements & Styles

· Camden Town & Bloomsbury

· Vorticism, Unit One & Constructivism

· War artists & Neo‑Romantics

· St Ives School & post‑war abstraction

· School of London, Pop Art & YBAs

Designers / Makers / Artists

· Early & interwar: William Nicholson, Walter Sickert, Gwen John, Augustus John, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry

· Avant‑garde & post‑war: David Bomberg, Edward Wadsworth, William Roberts, C.R.W. Nevinson, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton

· Landscape & abstraction: Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Ceri Richards, Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost, Bryan Wynter, Roger Hilton, William Scott

· Figuration: Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Euan Uglow, William Coldstream, Craigie Aitchison, Elisabeth Frink

· Irish masters: Jack B. Yeats, Paul Henry, Sir John Lavery, Colin Middleton, Daniel O’Neill

· Contemporary: Howard Hodgkin, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Jenny Saville, Chris Ofili, Antony Gormley

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