All items must be collected within 10 days of each sale ending or storage charges will apply at £10 + VAT per lot per day. We also offer a delivery service up to 100 miles from the saleroom, see our website for details. Contact shipping@criterionauctioneers.com for details or call 0207 359 5707.

Pack and Postage is subject to items being of a non fragile nature.  Pleasse contact us for a quotation.

Criterion Auctioneers  

Buying at Criterion is an exciting and enjoyable way to get antiques at trade prices. It is best to view before the auction if possible and we are open every weekend for this purpose. 

Items successfully purchased can be picked up from the saleroom every weekend or by appointment after the sale. If you require delivery we can offer an efficient carriage service to suit your needs. Shipping can be arranged as well as pack and postage for smaller non-fragile items. 

In these conditions the following words shall have the following meanings: The "Auctionee" means CRITERION AUCTIONEERS LTD. "Hammer Price" the price at which a lot is sold to the buyer. "Buyer" the highest bidder for any lot acceptable to the Auctioneer. "Seller" the person on whose behalf goods are offered for sale by the Auctioneer. "Lot" goods delivered to the Auctioneer by the Seller for sale by auction.


The Buyer 

1. The highest bidder acceptable to the Auctioneer shall be the Buyer. The Auctioneer shall have absolute discretion to settle any disputes which arise and to refuse bids or to advance the bidding as seen fit. 

2. When the lot is sold the buyer shall pay the Auctioneer in full the Hammer Price (plus V.A.T. if payable), together with a Buyers Premium of 24% (incl. of V.A.T.) of the Hammer Price plus 3.6% (incl of V.A.T.) for the-saleroom.com platform charges, a total of 27.6% including V.A.T on top of the Hammer Price, within 2 working days after the sale. 

3. Buyers shall provide the Auctioneer with names and addresses and if requested bank and other references. 

4. Where the Lot is marked by an asterisk (*), V.A.T. is payable on the hammer price at the standard rate. 

5. The ownership of a lot shall not pass to the Buyer and the Buyer shall not be entitled to remove any lot until he has made full payment to the Auctioneer of the total amount due. Payment shall be deemed to have been made only after the Auctioneer has received cash or sterling bankers draft or the Buyer's cheque has been cleared. 

6. All lots must be removed at the Buyer's risk and expense as soon as possible after the sale. 

7. Should a Buyer breach either of conditions 2 and 6 the Auctioneer, at his absolute discretion and without prejudice to any other rights he may have, may exercise any of the following rights: 

(a) rescind the sale or any lots sold to the buyer; 

(b) re-sell all or any lots by public auction or private treaty and any deficiencies in the purchase price resulting from such sale together with full costs incurred in connection with the lots or lots shall be paid to the Auctioneer by the buyer. Any surplus over the proceeds of sale shall go to the Seller; 

(c) remove, store and insure (on any premises) the lot or lots at the expense of the Buyer; 

(d) reject any bids made by or on behalf of of the Buyer at any future auction, or obtain part payment before accepting any future bids; 

(e) apply any proceeds 

8. (a) Items sold are normally of some age and are sold with any faults, imperfections and errors of descriptions. 

(b) The Auctioneer does not accept responsiblity for the authenticity, attribution, origin, date, age, authorship or estimated price of any lot and any representation or settlement by the Auctioneer in any catalogue, brochure, or advertisment only. Every person interested should exercise and rely on his own judgement as to such matters and neither the Auctioneer nor his employees or agents accept any responsibility for the correctness of such opinion. No warranty whatsoever is given by the Auctioneer or the Seller in respect of any lot and any warranties or conditions whether expressed or implied by statue common law or otherwise are hereby excluded. 

9. The Auctioneers will, on the Buyer's written instruction, execute bids on their behalf, but neither the Auctioneer nor his employees nor his agents shall be liable for any neglect in so doing or failure to do so. 

Online Bidding 

Criterion Auctioneers Ltd offer an online bidding service via the-saleroom.com for bidders who cannot attend the sale. 

In completing the bidder registration on www.the-saleroom.com and providing your credit card details and unless alternative arrangements are agreed with Criterion Auctioneers Ltd: 

1. authorise Criterion Auctioneers Ltd, if they so wish, to charge the credit card given in part or full payment, including all fees, for items successfully purchased in the auction via the-saleroom.com, Criterion will not take payment automatically from your registered credit card with the.saleroom.com, payments must be made directly to Criterion Auctioneers via Bank Transfer or online credit card payment having received your invoice from us. 

2. confirm that you are authorised to provide these credit card details to Criterion Auctioneers Ltd through www.the-saleroom.com and agree that Criterion Auctioneers Ltd are entitled to ship the goods to the card holder name and card holder address provided in fulfilment of the sale. 

Lots purchased online with the-saleroom.com will attract an additional charge for this service in the sum of 3.6% of the hammer price including VAT at the rate imposed which is collected by Criterion Auctioneers to cover the costs of running the bidding platform, providing a clerk to manage the platform on sale day and the administrative financial accounting procedures to pass on these proceeds in part to the thrid party provider of the platform.

Full Terms and Conditions of business may be found on our Website https://criterionauctioneers.com.  If any terms herein are at odds with those on our website, the company's website terms and conditions will apply.

Obituary by Simon Fenwick - Independent (Saturday 2nd July 2011)

The artist Trevor Frankland was, first and foremost, an intellectual; there was a concept or scheme behind all his work.

His career encompassed many different phases and styles. For a time he concentrated on reliefs, but then in 1976 abandoned these and returned solely to painting. By the end of the 1980s he was finding the purely abstract too limiting and concrete images started to reappear in his work. His linocuts and watercolours included arrangements of objects such as cushions, garden furniture, vases, and Venetian blinds. Beyond, across a void and suspended in space archways and windows open into an imaginary landscape. This interplay of perspectives between the representational and flat patterns created what Frankland called "domestic landscapes" and became his distinctive style.

He was also heavily involved in professional organisations. For him the most significant was the Royal Watercolour Society, for which he served as president from 2003 to 2006.

At 16 he left school and worked as an apprentice shipyard draughtsman. He hated it, but it left him with his idiosyncratic handwriting: he printed everything in capitals. Called up for service in the RAF, by luck he found that this also enabled him to attend the Laird School of Art in Birkenhead and here he was able to receive a proper grounding in art. He attended the Royal Academy Schools in London, where his contemporaries included Brian Kneale, John Hoyland, Brian Organ, and Eric Hebborn (who later became famous as a forger). He won several prizes and on graduation in 1959 a £200 Leverhulme Award that allowed him to stay and study printmaking: the damage caused by breathing in fumes from nitric acid on the etching plates caused nose bleeds for the rest of his life.

In 1957 Frankland had married Dorothy Southern, also an artist, whom he had known since they were in their teens. On leaving the RA he began work at the Medway College of Art in Rochester where he taught drawing and composition but taking other work to get by – picture restoration, book illustration, even painting a sign for a hot potato bar. He moved on to Hornsey School of Art, where he taught Visual Research Studies, eventually becoming associate senior lecturer before retiring in 1996.

In 1968 student sit-ins led to Hornsey's closure for six months. Frankland was unsympathetic to the students' aims, but he was immensely grateful for the free time the strike gave him to read widely and work on his own art projects. In a complete move away from representational art he began a series of large, three-dimensional structures made from wood and hardboard. To his great surprise and pleasure, one of these – titled Euryalus – was bought for 100 guineas by Rank Xerox for their executive dining room.

In 1969 Trevor and Dorothy took the first of many trips abroad which eventually took them through the Middle East and North Africa and beyond to Afghanistan and Iran, Pakistan and India. The abstract rhythms and patterns of Islamic art fascinated Frankland and found their way into the grid systems and network structures which typified his work of the following two decades.

Institutional collections holding Frankland's work include Birmingham University, Middlesex University, Scarborough Art Gallery, Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead, Hammersmith Hospital, and Williamson Art Gallery. His work is also in private collections in England, Italy and the US.

Frankland admired what the art historian Bernard Berenson called "controlled" rather than "exuberant" passion and he named Klimt, de Chirico, Balthus and Frank Stella, as important influences. Above all he valued the mathematical clarity of Nicolas Poussin. Yet he was also drawn to the arcane and esoteric. He was both a Freemason and greatly inspired by Zen Buddhism. In his upstairs studio he kept a box of yarrow sticks which he used for consulting the I Ching, the Chinese book of divination.

At his home in Wandsworth he kept two studios for his work, and his sitting room was virtually an art-reference library. Even his garden, designed to Japanese principles, was a creative work of art and featured in several television programmes.

He was elected to several artistic societies including the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, the Royal Society of British Artists, the London Group and the Art Workers Guild. As well as offering an outlet for sales, the societies were an opportunity for companionship, and – since he was interested in their politics – a chance for influencing their direction.

Frankland was always active, vigorous and had a strong sense of humour. In 2010 Trevor Frankland, Between Clarity and Mystery was published, to coincide with the Royal Watercolour Society's spring exhibition, at which he was the featured artist.

Eric Trevor Frankland, artist and teacher: born Middlesbrough 7 July 1931; married 1957 Dorothy Southern; died London 17 April 2011.

Collections & Deliveries 

Criterion Carriage & Clearances Ltd

Tel: 020 7359 5707 Option 3

Email shipping@criterionauctioneers.com to arrange your collection or delivery.

We deliver your items to the front door of your main entrance. For any other location in or on your property please inform us when booking as this could affect the charges. 

All collections from Vendors homes are quoted for on an individual basis. 

Please contact us at shipping@criterionauctioneers.com for a delivery quotation.

Deliveries to and from Gloucester to Islington and or Corsham salerooms will be charged for the first lot at £20 per item for small items and £40 for large items + VAT, subsequent lots charged at £10 per small item and £20 for large items + VAT .

We can provide a quote for deliveries up to 100 miles from either our Gloucester, London or Corsham salerooms.

Prices and services valid from 3rd January 2023

All collection and delivery prices include VAT                                                                                                                                                            

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