In the frame: Summer art sales need not break the bank

There is a selection of 337 works to choose from at Whyte's auction

Beached Boat by William Carron at Whyte's.

The red/blue tonal palette of two artworks illustrated here is similar. In art market terms the gulf between them amounts to millions and millions of euro and is, to all intents, unbridgeable. 

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-born American-based Abstract Expressionist who belongs in the canon of the greats, Gerard le Roux is a practically unknown French artist and sculptor born in 1942 and resident for many years in St Tropez.