June's Exciting Auctions

It's nearly that time again for McTear's '3 days of auctions' which will take place from the 5th to the 7th of June.

During these 3 days we will be holding various exciting sales including The Scottish Contemporary Art auction, Rare and Collectable Whisky, Wine & Port auction and Furniture and Works of Art auction. This will give people a chance to buy an outstanding selection of paintings by Scotland's finest artists, a huge range of rare and collectable whiskies for collectors and whisky lovers alike and beautiful lots of jewellery, watches and coins. 

Alexander Millar Stan and Ollie oil on canvas estimated to sell for £7000-£10000 in The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction on Tuesday the 5th of June at 6pm.



This Pearl and Enamel dress ring estimated to sell £80 -£120 in our Fine Jewellery, Watches and Coins auction on Wednesday the 6th June at 6pm.

For more details on the auctions we have during the 3 days visit our website where you can find the online catalogues for what will be sold at each auction.

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Successful Whisky Auction for McTear's...

Last Wednesday's Rare and Collectable Whisky, Wine & Port auction saw a selection of the finest malts go under the hammer, exceeding all expectations with what they achieved.

McTear's secured over £124,000 in sales over the course of Wednesday with fine examples of Bowmore, Highland Park and Ardbeg contributing.

The sale featured a 31 year old Bowmore 'Dynasty Decanter' that sold for £2200 and a 25 year old Macallan Silver Jubilee Magnum that sold for £3000.

Lot 615: DYNASTY DECANTER 31 YEAR OLD BOWMORE

Lot 670: MACALLAN 25 YEARS OLD SILVER JUBILEE MAGNUM


Stephen McGinty, McTear's Whisky specialist, commented on the sale: “Our monthly Rare and Collectable sales have already established a market leading reputation however, the sale this week surpassed all our expectations and resulted in a record total for a McTear’s whisky auction".

Another Royal themed bottle of Macallan, celebrating the Royal marriage in 1981 of HRH The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, secured £1,800 in the auction.

Lot 719: THE MACALLAN ROYAL MARRIAGE" 1981

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A Record Breaking 'Scream'

This week was not only an exciting week for McTear's with our various auctions, it also saw the record breaking sale of the world famous painting: 'The Scream' at an auction house in New York.

Edvard Munch's 'The Scream', painted in 1895 sold for a record breaking $119.9million (roughly £74 million) at an Auction yesterday at Sotheby's in New York. The previous record for a piece of artwork sold at auction was for Picasso's Nude, Green, Leaves and Bust sold by Christies in 2010 for $106.5million but 'The Scream' has now exceeded this and now holds the title as most expensive piece of art sold at auction.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/may/03/scream-price-edvard-munch

In an article on The Guardian by Jonathan Jones, he describes the painting as a 'poet in colour', portraying feelings and as the sky of blood and despair are revealed in this painting, the feelings, like in most of his work, are dark.

Born in December, 1863 Munch was a Norwegian painter and print maker. His paintings conveyed great symbolism most of which towards that of spiritual anguish which can be seen in 'The Scream'.  This symbolism portrayed in his paintings can be owed to his father who was described as being extremely religious and would amuse his children with graphic ghost stories and tales. Living a long life, Munch sadly died at the age of 80 years old, leaving behind him a legacy and paintings that today are valued by many and famous around the world.

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