Auction Record for a Scottish Colourist Achieved at Sotheby’s London

LONDON.- A new auction record for an artwork by a Scottish Colourist was set today at Sotheby’s in London when Samuel John Peploe’s Tulips sold for £623,650 / $964,224 / €717,632. The painting eclipsed the pre-sale high estimate (the painting had an estimate of £300,000-500,000) and established a new auction record for the artist and a Scottish Colourist by a considerable margin. **The previous auction record for a work by Peploe was £529,250 and this was set by his Roses [...]

Masterpieces by the Scottish Colourists to Lead Sotheby’s London Sale

LONDON.- On Thursday, 22 April 2010, the first of Sotheby’s biannual London sales of Scottish Pictures in 2010 will include a group of important works by the Scottish Colourists that unequivocally demonstrates the pivotal position occupied by these artists in the formative years of British modernism during the early decades of the twentieth century. The group comprises Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935), Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937), George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931) and John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961), and following extended sojourns in [...]