Highlights: The Spring Welsh Sale
The first Welsh Sale of 2026 took place over two parts this past week - with Sunday's Part I focusing on premium Welsh art and Tuesday's Part II on Welsh furniture, books, ceramics and unreserved art.
With a very satisfying 93% sell-through rate across the two parts, and a total hammer price of £563,590, it was the second highest ever total for a Welsh Sale and demonstrates the strength in the market for all things Welsh.
Highlights included an oil painting by Sir Kyffin Williams of St David’s Head, which sold for £55,000 - the 5th highest price ever achieved for one of his works. A still life of a pochard duck by the same artist sold for £22,500, smashing through the £10,000 - £12,000 price estimate. Forty-one works by Sir Kyffin were offered in print, work on paper or oil and only three of these lots failed to sell. The Kyffin Williams section sold for a combined total of over £200,000
Following her major retrospective on her work at the National Museum Cardiff, the three Gwen John artworks in the auction all sold, including a watercolour and pencil picture, ‘Three Women in Church’, which sold for £18,000.
It is such a golden time for Welsh art and the results of the sale are evidence of this. We’ve seen numerous record prices in the last five years, and artists like Kyffin and Gwen are leading the charge. Demand for Welsh art has grown significantly all over the world and for Kyffin in particular. Increasingly we are seeing new collectors keen to have a piece of Wales on the wall of their home, wherever they might live.
Here are some of the star performers in our latest Welsh Sale (Part I):
We are now inviting entries for our Welsh Sale in July, please contact us soon as you can with potential entries. Assessments are given without obligation and free of charge.
