More than £730,000 worth of pictures changed hands at Edinburgh saleroom Lyon & Turnbull’s (25/20% buyer’s premium) recent sale of Scottish art.
As expected, the financial stars on December 7 came from the Scottish Colourists – the progressive quartet of painters who played a key role in the development of Modernism in the early 20th century.
Top lot in the 117-lot sale was George Leslie Hunter’s (1877-1931)A Still Life of Fruit and Flowers with Persian Curtain. The 2ft 3in x 22in (68 x 56cm) oil on board dates from the high point of Hunter’s career in the mid-1920s, when his canvases were particularly vibrant and bold in both composition and colour.