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Sotheby’s Scottish sale was strong on Colourists and weak on Vettriano. Here are some highlights:
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The Scotsman is proud that the rebound in the art market is bringing works of the Scottish Colourists onto the market:
Sotheby’s expects its sale of Scottish pictures to bring in more than £2.3 million. Peploe’s striking Tulips, from 1912, valued at £300,000-£500,000, goes on show with the other works in Edinburgh before heading to London for the 22 April auction. Two pictures in the Sotheby’s sale are Colourist works that have been passed down through several generations and are only now going on sale. FCB Cadell’s bright and breezy Florian Café, Venice, estimated to fetch £100,000-£150,000, is being sold by the great-grandson of one of the painter’s leading patrons. George Leslie Hunter’s work Chrysanthemums, estimated at £200,000-£300,000, is another family heirloom.
Classic Schools of Scottish Painting in Line to Benefit from Flight to Quality (Scotsman)
Colin Gleadell recounts the end of an era as Sotheby’s abandons its Scottish Pictures sale at Gleneagles Hotel, once the highlight of the August season and grand romp for guests and buyers. Sotheby’s will still sell Scottish art–mostly the Colourists and Jack Vettriano–in a £4 million sale scheduled for September in Edinburgh. Christie’s has exited the field altogether.
The changes now appear to leave the field open for Bonhams to take the reins. In its plush new salerooms in Queen Street, Bonhams goes into its 10th successive year of Scottish sales in Edinburgh from August 18-21, with nine sales and more than 1,000 lots from silver, glass, and whisky, to books, guns, furniture and pictures, estimated to fetch in the region of £1 million.Continue Reading
