Howard Coster Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Howard Coster Art Value Price Guide

Dec. 05, 2024
Howard Coster (1885-1959): Oswell Blakeston (1907-1985)
Est: $200 - $300
Gelatin silver print, unsigned, with the artist studio inkstamp on the reverse. 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (sheet), unframed.
STAIR
Nov. 19, 2024
§ Howard Coster (1885-1959)
Est: £100 - £150
Howard Coster (1885-1959) PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM, 1936. Vintage silver gelatin press print, image size 24.5 x 17cm, sheet size 25 x 17.7cm, annotated in an unknown hand with Coster's copyright and Black Star Copyright stamps verso. An assortment of half-plate film negatives from this sitting are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Chiswick Auctions
Jun. 26, 2024
Howard Coster (British, 1885-1959)
Est: £300 - £500
Howard Coster (British, 1885-1959) Portrait photograph of Sir Peter Scott, in naval uniform hand-signed by the photographer to the mount 20.5 x 16cm Provenance: The studio collection of Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909-1989)
Cheffins
Jun. 06, 2024
Â§ Howard Coster (1885-1959)
Est: £150 - £250
Â§ Howard Coster (1885-1959) Howard Coster (1885-1959) PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM, 1936. Vintage silver gelatin press print, image size 245 x 170, sheet size 250 x 177mm, annotated in an unknown hand with Coster's copyright and Black Star Copyright stamps verso. An assortment of half-plate film negatives from this sitting are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Ex-Collection of Robert Kirschenbaum
Chiswick Auctions
May. 19, 2021
* Coster (Howard, 1885-1959, & Joan, 1903-1974). Portrait of Yvonne ffrench, 1934
Est: £100 - £150
* Coster (Howard, 1885-1959, & Joan, 1903-1974). Portrait of Yvonne ffrench, 1934, vintage bromide print photograph, the sitter seen seated and half-length, leaning towards her Cairn Terrier on the cushion beside her, 18 x 23.5cm (7 x 9.25ins), photographer's pencil signature on mount beneath, framed and glazed, contemporary ink identification to backing board, overall 34.5 x 36cm Qty: (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Dec. 16, 2020
* Coster (Howard, 1885-1959). A group of four portrait photographs, c. 1920s/1930s
Est: £100 - £150
* Coster (Howard, 1885-1959). A group of four portrait photographs, c. 1920s/1930s, vintage matte gelatin silver prints on thin card of the authors W.W. Jacobs (1863-1943), E.V. Lucas (1868-1938), Charles Morgan (1894-1958) and A.P. Herbert (1890-1971), signed by the photographer in white china ink to lower margins, wet stamps to versos, 28 x 23 cm Qty: (4)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Feb. 05, 2019
HOWARD COSTER | Gluck, ca.1932
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
Silver print, mounted on paper. Signed in pencil on the image, stamped on the card's verso. Matted and framed.
Sotheby's
Mar. 29, 2011
LUCAS, EDWARD VERRALL (1868-1938, essayist and critic)
Est: £350 - £450
PORTRAIT BY HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959), vintage photograph, silver print, half-length, a quarter turned to the right, signed by the photographer in the plate, with his copyright asserted on the verso, framed and glazed, size of image 10¾ x 8¼ inches (27 x 14.5 cm), overall size 16½ x 14½ inches (42 x 37 cm), [1931]
Bonhams
Mar. 29, 2011
HERBERT, Sir ALAN PATRICK (1890-1971, humorist, novelist, playwright and barrister, M.P.)
Est: £300 - £400
PORTRAIT BY HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959), vintage photograph, silver print, head and shoulders, three-quarter profile facing left, signed by the photographer on the image, with his copyright asserted on the verso, framed and glazed, size of image 10¾ x 8¾ inches (27 x 14.5 cm), overall size 16½ x 14½ inches (42 x 37 cm) [1930s]
Bonhams
Mar. 29, 2011
JACOBS, WILLIAM WYMARK (1863-1943, novelist and short story writer)
Est: £250 - £300
PORTRAIT BY HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959), vintage photograph, silver print, three-quarter length, facing the camera, signed by the photographer in the plate, with his copyright asserted on the verso, framed and glazed, size of image 10½ x 8¾ inches (17 x 22 cm), overall size 16½ x 14½ inches (42 x 37 cm) [1934]
Bonhams
Mar. 29, 2011
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856-1950, playwright, literary and theatre critic, Fabian)
Est: £1,000 - £1,200
PORTRAIT BY HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959), vintage photograph, silver print on textured paper (looking like material), head and shoulders looking to the left, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY SHAW, signed on the photograph and on the original mount ('G. Bernard Shaw'), inscribed to Mary Lawton 13 November 1936, the original mount also signed by Howard Coster, some oxidisation to the silver, framed and glazed, size of image 11½ x 8¼ inches (25 x 20.5 cm), overall size 17 x 13 inches (43 x 33 cm), 1936
Bonhams
Mar. 29, 2011
MORGAN, CHARLES LANGBRIDGE (1894-1958, novelist, critic and playwright)
Est: £350 - £400
PORTRAIT BY HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959), vintage photograph, silver print, half-length, writing, profile facing left, signed by the photographer on the image, with his copyright asserted on the verso, framed and glazed, size of image l0¾ x 8¾ inches (27 x 22 cm), overall size 16½ x 14½ inches (42 x 37 cm) [1934]
Bonhams
Mar. 29, 2011
TOMLINSON, HENRY MAJOR (1873-1958, novelist and journalist)
Est: £300 - £400
PORTRAIT BY HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959), vintage photograph, silver print, head held in hands, profile facing left, signed by the photographer on the image, with his copyright asserted on the verso, framed and glazed, size of image 10¾ x 8¾ inches (27 x 14.5 cm), overall size 16½ x 14½ inches (42 x 37 cm), [1934]
Bonhams
Mar. 03, 2011
* Coster (Howard, 1885-1959). Head and shoulders
Est: £200 - £300
* Coster (Howard, 1885-1959). Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Peter Scott, c. 1940s, vintage bromide silver print, head and shoulders portrait, photographer's wetstamp to verso, 20.5 x 16cm, tipped into a paper folder mount with photographer's pencil signature beneath image, some soiling to folder, together with a second similar showing Peter Scott in naval dress and cap with arms folded, approx. 21 x 15cm, also with photographer's wetstamp to verso and pencil signature on mount beneath, the mount tipped into a paper folder, plus two earlier professional photographs of Peter as a young boy, photographer unidentified, plus a colour printed engraved portrait of a naked Peter Scott as a toddler sitting on a beach, pencil details beneath image identifying the studio as Copperfields, and dated 1911, some spotting to mount, plus a reproduction of the print used in a magazine after loss of his father Captain R. F. Scott (6)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Sep. 22, 2010
HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959)
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959) T.E. Lawrence signed 'Howard Coster. F.R.S.A.' on the mount gelatin silver print 9 5/8 x 6 5/8in. (24.3 x 16.8cm.) with an unframed studio portrait photograph of Emir Faisal (2)
Christie's
Apr. 22, 2010
Howard Coster (1885-1959)
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Howard Coster (1885-1959) T.E. Lawrence signed 'Howard Coster. F.R.S.A.' on the mount silver gelatin print 9 5/8 x 6 5/8in. (24.3 x 16.8cm.) (2)
Christie's
Jun. 19, 2007
AUDEN, Wystan H. (1907-1973). Poet . Large photograph signed ("Wystan Auden"), also signed by CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD ("Christopher Isherwood") and STEPHEN SPENDER ("Stephen Spender"). [Photo by Howard Coster (1885-1959), 1937.] 8 x 10¼ in., with
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
AUDEN, Wystan H. (1907-1973). Poet . Large photograph signed ("Wystan Auden"), also signed by CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD ("Christopher Isherwood") and STEPHEN SPENDER ("Stephen Spender"). [Photo by Howard Coster (1885-1959), 1937.] 8 x 10¼ in., with margins . FINE. Signed by all three in ink in lower margin. Auden stands at far left in a double-breasted pinstripe suit and tie, holding a cigarette in his right hand. Isherwood stands at center, with Spender at far right. AUDEN, SPENDER AND ISHERWOOD. A beautiful, cream-toned image of three of the most famous literary men of twentieth-century Britain. This is one of a sequence of shots by Coster, likely taken for The Bystander , an English magazine devoted to the arts. It captures Auden at an important moment in his career, just after his return from Spain where the civil war had a profound effect on his thinking. He witnessed the heavy hand of Stalinist influence on the republican side, as well as some of the ugly examples of anti-Catholic persecution by the loyalists. He was wary ever after of political commitment, and it prompted a journey back to Christianity. The following year he and Spender traveled to China to report on the Sino-Japanese war raging there. In 1939 a book project took him to America, and he decided to stay. Jingoes in Parliament denounced him and fellow ex-pat Isherwood for remaining in safety in the U. S. while German bombs fell on England (Auden did offer his services to the British consulate, but they told him he wasn't needed back home). Auden became an American citizen and divided the remainder of his life between Greenwich Village and a summer home outside Vienna.
Christie's
Sep. 27, 2006
Howard Coster (1885-1959)
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
T.E. Lawrence signed 'Howard Coster. F.R.S.A.' on the mount silver gelatin print 9 5/8 x 6 5/8in. (24.3 x 16.8cm.)
Christie's
Nov. 15, 2005
HOWARD COSTER, 1885-1959
Est: £500 - £700
T. E. LAWRENCE, LONDON, 1931 T. E. LAWRENCE, LONDON, 1931 275 by 198mm (sight area) Silver Print on textured paper, mounted on board, signed in pencil on the mount, with the photographer's label on the reverse 'Howard Coster/Photographer of Men/8 Essex Street, Strand', PROVENANCE Eric Kennington. NOTE There is another print of this subject in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sotheby's
Apr. 27, 2004
HOWARD COSTER (1885-1959)
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Alan Cobham, 1927 gelatin silver print titled, dated in pencil and credit stamp (on the verso) 7 x 5in. (17.8 x 12.6cm.)
Christie's