03/05/2026
Clients who are familiar with our Antiques & Interiors sales will remember the names Graham and Mollie Dark, whose remarkable collection of sculpture, furniture and antiquities, we sold in December 2024.
That was an exceptional sale, and peppered amongst the beautiful antiques and artefacts were small paintings and Christmas cards by their artist friends. We are delighted to announce that in our May 14th & 15th Cornish Art & Fine Art Sale, we will be selling some of the larger and most important works from their excellent art collection.
Mollie & Graham met in Wimbledon in 1978. He, a Cornishman born in Gulval in 1930, acquired an early appreciation of art by visiting Newlyn Gallery with his family. In his early career, Graham worked in London writing for the Daily Express, and he was responsible for one of the first Arts columns in a tabloid paper, but in 1960, he opened an antique shop in Chelsea. Inspired by trips to Italy, he displayed early furniture and antiquities in an uncluttered modern setting, a technique he later utilised in his own home.
The Darks moved back to Cornwall in 1980 and, at their home in Flushing and later Truro, curated an impressive body of art and antiquities with a particular focus on Cornish artists such as Paul Feiler and Terry Frost, who both became close friends. The paintings were displayed alongside mid-century modern designer furniture by Eames, Bertoia and Magistretti, and arrangements of antiquities, thought of as ‘ensembles’ by Graham.
Warm, charming, and generous hosts, they entertained their artistic circle of friends in their exquisitely arranged home.
It was a privilege for us to handle their beautiful possessions in our hugely successful December 2024 sale, as it is again now in 2026, selling the final and most impressive works we’ve come across from their collections: featuring works by Paul Feiler, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton, Trevor Bell and Ivon Hitchens. View this collection and more in our Cornish Art catalogue, online now.
Cornish Art, Fine Art & Studio Pottery
14th & 15th May, 10 am | Penzance & live online
