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 senior experts - Simon Hucker, Alice Strang, and Philip Smith - bring over 50 years of combined experience across both the commercial art market and museum sector, offering unrivalled expertise and an extensive network within the Modern British Art community.
Our biannual MODERN MADE auctions in London focus on the most significant movements in 20th-century British art, from early modernism and the Bloomsbury Group and Camden Town School, through Vorticism, Surrealism, and inter-war abstraction, to post-war British art, Neo-Romanticism, St Ives, Pop Art, the New Generation of painters and sculptors, and later developments in postmodernism, performance art, and the rise of the Young British Artists (YBAs).
A key strength of our Modern British Art auctions is our focus on 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.
All auction results are inclusive of buyer’s premium.
