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Charles Bronson: Expression in Confinement on 11/03/2026

Charles Bronson: Expression in Confinement

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DATE: 11/03/2026

This exceptional auction presents a single-lot offering of over 500 original works by Charles Bronson (Charles Salvador) – one of Britain’s most infamous and compelling outsider artists. Created over decades within the confines of incarceration, this remarkable collection offers a rare opportunity to acquire an extensive body of work shaped by isolation, confrontation, and relentless self-expression.

Comprising an expansive range of drawings, sketches, ink compositions and works on paper, the collection is defined by bold linework, striking imagery and an unmistakably personal intensity. Throughout, Bronson’s recurring themes of identity, confinement, authority and self-mythology reveal an artist documenting his own existence in real time – works that function not only as powerful examples of outsider art, but as raw records of psychological endurance and creative compulsion.

Offered exclusively as one complete lot, this single-owner collection represents the most comprehensive group of Bronson’s prison works ever to appear at auction. With its scale, depth and cultural significance, it will appeal to collectors of outsider and contemporary art alike, as well as those drawn to the complex narratives that emerge when creativity is forged under extreme constraint.

This is a singular opportunity to acquire the entire collection in one acquisition – to own a substantial and historically resonant body of work that captures the complex intersection of notoriety, confinement and artistic expression within modern British cultural history.

TIME: 02: 00 PM

Closing Date for Entries: Thursday, 1 January

VENUE: Online Automated Auction (Timed)

AUCTION VIEWING:
Viewings will be held at Duggleby Stephenson of York, Murton, YO19 5GF

Monday 9th March 9am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 10th March 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 11th March from 9am


  • Buyer's premium 25% plus VAT
  • In-house post & packing available - see individual lots for prices
  • Items to be paid for by Wednesday, 18 March and collected by Wednesday, 18 March
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