Succesful October

What a fantastic result for our October dedicated auctions with special highlight to our Scottish Still Lifes, Fine & Contemporary Pictures and Whisky auctions that we had.

Featured in our previous post was the beautiful Pink Roses oil on canvas by Samuel John Peploe. Estimated to reach a significant £200,000 - £300,000 in our Scottish Still Lifes, Fine & Contemporary Pictures auction, it went under the hammer for a fantastic £185,000.

 

In The Chairman’s Collection - Fine Macallan auction we also had outstanding sales. In particular this Macallan Anniversary Malt 50 Year Old limited edition sold for £17,000 after an estimation of £8000-£10,000, a world record for this bottling.

                             
Thanks to everyone who came along to the auctions, keep an eye out for what we have coming in November at McTear's Auctioneers.

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Pink Roses by Peploe

This beautiful oil on canvas by Samual John Peploe, Pink Roses, is coming up for sale on 25th October in McTear’s auction of ‘Scottish Still Lifes’.

Estimate: £200,000 - £300,000

Born in 1871, Peploe was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, famous for his still life pieces. He was also well known for being part of the group of four painters who were known as the 'Scottish Colourists'.  Studying in both Scotland and Paris, Peploe experimented with the bold use of colour inspired by the bright sunset and influenced by specific French Painters.

It was in 1910, when Peploe moved to Paris, that he started to pay more attention to still life and landscape painting with an amalgamation of fluid brushwork, thick impasto and dark backgrounds with strong lighting. Peploe continued painting when he returned to Scotland, going on regular painting trips with friends to various parts of Scotland.

Peploe sadly died in Edinburgh in 1935 but his paintings, with strong use of colour, tight composition and meticulous execution, are ones not to be missed.

One of Peploe's other paintings, Still Life with Coffee Pot, sold on 26 May 2011 at Christie's in London for £937,250, currently holds the record for one of the most expensive Scottish painting sold at auction.

Make sure that you check out our website for more information on this up coming auction and other ones at McTear's.