Lyon & Turnbull is recognised as one of the leading UK auction houses for Modern British Art, with one of the most experienced specialist teams in the field.
Our Modern British Art specialists Simon Hucker, Alice Strang and Philip Smith bring more than 50 years of combined experience across the commercial art market and museum sector. The team provides specialist advice and complimentary auction valuations for individual artworks and collections.
Our biannual MODERN MADE auctions in London focus on the major movements in 20th-century British art, from early modernism, the Bloomsbury Group and Camden Town School through to Vorticism, Surrealism and inter-war abstraction. The auctions also encompass post-war British art, Neo-Romanticism, St Ives, Pop Art, the New Generation of painters and sculptors, and later developments including postmodernism, performance art and the rise of the Young British Artists (YBAs).
Artists regularly represented include L. S. Lowry, Ben Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens, Elisabeth Frink, Terry Frost, William Turnbull, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Cedric Morris and Duncan Grant, among many others.
A key strength of our Modern British Art auctions is British sculpture of the 1950s and 1960s, a period widely regarded as a golden age. Our sales regularly feature iconic sculptors such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, alongside internationally celebrated names including Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, Robert Adams, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull.
Lyon & Turnbull’s Modern British Art auctions attract collectors, institutions, and investors from across the UK and internationally, with results that consistently reflect strong market demand. Whether you are building a collection or considering selling a Modern British painting, sculpture or work on paper, our specialists can advise on attribution, provenance, condition, market demand and potential value at auction.
All auction results are inclusive of buyer’s premium.
