Retrospective One by Allan Banford Sotheby's Auction 2016 Sold £75.000 ” Allan Banford” is a visual artist part of the New European Painting that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Allan has produced abstract paintings, installations as well as music and video productions. His art follows the examples of Gerhard Richter and Francis Bacon in undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.