Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 The works have been bought for Pale Hall, at Llandderfel near Bala, with the aim of creating a gallery of important Welsh art. Anthony Cooper-Barney, from Palé Hall, Llandderfel, near Bala and his hotel and estate director, Calum Milne, recently attended auctioneers Rogers Jones’ Welsh Sale and the British & European Fine Art auctions at Gregynog Hall, near Newtown, where he purchased 93 lots. Included in his acquisitions and coming home to Eryri Snowdonia National Park – formerly known as Snowdonia, where Palé Hall is located, are nine works by famous Anglesey-based artist Sir Kyffin Williams, which together cost more than £100,000.
The most expensive of paintings were two oils on canvas titled ‘Anglesey in Winter’ and 'Road to the Mine, Blaenau Ffestiniog', which cost £39,000 and £36,000, respectively. Two trademark Sir Kyffin Williams watercolours of a farmer with a walking stick were secured for £8,000 and £4,200, respectively, while a limited edition bronze bust of Dylan Thomas by Hugh Oloff de Wet cost £1,100. Mr Cooper-Barney also purchased works by Sir Frank Brangwyn, Josef Herman, Paul Peter Pieck, Valerie Ganz, Ronald Herbert John Lawrence, Vivienne Williams, Iwan Bala, Roger Cecil, Keith Bowen, Alan Williams, James Donovan, Charles Wyatt Warren, Andrew Vicary, Will Roberts, Harry Holland and Claudia Williams.
“We aim to establish a gallery of leading Welsh artists here at Palé.