Auctioneers in South Cerney had a sense of huge interest

One of the star turns in the summer sale in South Cerney of Martin Orsky’s wonderful library emerged towards the end of the day. This was a uniformly framed set of five stencil coloured woodcut broadsides, heightened with bodycolour and glitter and representing ‘The Five Senses’, sold at £30,000.

This was 10 times the high estimate but, considering the interest shown prior to the Dominic Winte…

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