Christie’s also staged a strong-performing sale of Modern British art last week which was led by a Henry Moore head sculpture at £3.9m. A record came for any Scottish Colourist when Samuel John Peploe’s (1871-1935) Still Life with Tulips (left) was knocked down above estimate at £820,000.
Dating from 1919, it previously sold at Sotheby’s Hopetoun House sale in 2006 for £480,000. The previous record for Peploe was the £800,000 set by The Coffee Pot that sold at Christie’s in May 2011.