An oil by Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), painted during the most experimental phase of her career, features in Lyon & Turnbull’s sale in Edinburgh on January 17.
Awake, a 2ft x 20in (61 x 51cm) canvas from 1973, depicts the morning light coming through an open window, with a small vase of flowers in the right-hand corner. It had been in the artist’s family collection before featuring in an exhibition at the Crane Kalman Gallery in London.