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Final Welsh Sale seals record year for Welsh art

 November's Welsh Sale auction, the final one of 2024 was a resounding success. The 'sell through' rate of 83% was excellent with 334 of the 401 lots finding new homes.

The sale concludes a record year for Welsh art with sales exceeding £1.4 million for the first time. The results show the strength of the Welsh art market and our continued growth in this sector. Our database of active buyers has grown enormously in the last few years due to a tangible increase in interest in Welsh art.

Sir Kyffin Williams leads the way

There are no surprises that works by Sir Kyffin Williams have led the way on prices again with just under £454,000 in total value having sold. But the sell through for Kyffins this year has been staggering; we have offered 112 works by the artist in our three Welsh Sales and only 3 pictures failed to sell (and one of those sold in a subsequent sale at a higher price than the original estimate)! The appetite for Wales best known artist is unprecedented, and we are selling them to collectors far and wide with many of them purchasing a Kyffin for the first time. The appetite for Kyffin was fully on show in our latest Welsh Sale when a smallish but trademark 'farmer on a mountain with sheepdogs' saw a protracted bidding battle to reach an exceptional £61,000 hammer price conclusion. This is just £1000 short of our own world record for the artist.

Below are but a few highlights I have picked out from a record year of selling Welsh art:

Sir Kyffin Williams - 'Bugail a Cwn Defaid'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (November 16, 2024)

£61000

Kyffin1

Ogwyn Davies - 'Soar y Mynydd'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (November 16, 2024)

£16000

Ogwyn

Sir Kyffin Williams - 'Ponies Pentre Pella'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (November 16, 2024)

£30000

Kyffin2

Josef Herman - 'Study of Miners'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (November 16, 2024)

£8500

48803 1

Sir Kyffin Williams - 'Hills above Nant Peris'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (November 16, 2024)

£30000

50437 4

Ifor Pritchard - portrait of six quarrymen

Sold at The Welsh Sale (November 16, 2024)

£6000

50009 2

Muriel Delahaye - 'The Captain's Wife'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (November 16, 2024)

£3800

47704 3

Sir Kyffin Williams - 'Winter Crib Goch'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (July 27, 2024)

£41000

46778 1 medium

Gwen John - 'Two Hatted Women in Church'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (July 27, 2024)

£22000

44251 0 medium

Sir Kyffin Williams - 'Anglesey in Winter'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (July 27, 2024)

£39000

44419 4 medium

Sir Kyffin Williams - 'Road to the Mine, Blaenau Ffestiniog'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (July 27, 2024)

£36000

44039 6 medium

Sir Kyffin Williams - 'The Barrister'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (July 27, 2024)

£8000

45709 0 medium

John Elwyn - 'Welsh Landscape'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (April 27, 2024)

£12500

42195 0 medium

Paul Peter Piech - 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (July 27, 2024)

£3600

46367 0 medium

Hywel Harries - 'Salem Revisited'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (April 27, 2024)

£9000

41277 0 medium

Ernest Zobole - 'Looking Out'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (April 27, 2024)

£5500

42224 0 medium

Ceri Richards - figure at piano

Sold at The Welsh Sale (April 27, 2024)

£7400

40947 0 medium

Hugh Hughes - self portrait

Sold at The Welsh Sale (April 27, 2024)

£3400

40264 2 medium

Aneurin Jones - 'Ebbw'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (April 27, 2024)

£3800

42155 0 medium

Sir Kyffin Williams - 'Gwastadnant'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (April 27, 2024)

£2000

42375 0 medium

Leslie Moore - 'Walton on Thames'

Sold at The Welsh Sale (April 27, 2024)

£2200

41845 0 medium

We are now inviting entries to our March 2025 Welsh Sale. Good entries are already with us and we will close for consignments at the start of February. 

Contact us now for a no-obligation assessment on your Welsh pictures.

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