Protesters have pasted a photograph of a Gazan mother and child over Picasso’s painting Motherhood (La Maternité) before pouring red paint on the floor of the National Gallery in London.
Her trajectory to one day becoming a prominent, if not the preeminent, paintings conservator in the UK began as a child, when her stewardship of Melvyn Bragg’s ‘Great Artists’ book sparked an aficionado with renaissance art.
George Leslie Hunter, The Ginger Jar, which had a $52,700 to $79,100 estimate, was bought-in at Bonhams, Edinburgh. Oil On Board, 40.6 x 35.5cm. The work has been traded twice in the past.
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, Iona, sold for $58,600, more than the low estimate at Bonhams, Edinburgh. Oil On Panel, 38.1 x 45.0cm. The work has been traded 3 times in the past.
Samuel John Peploe Rsa, North Berwick, sold for $36,800, more than one and a half times the low estimate at Bonhams, Edinburgh. Oil On Panel, 15.9 x 23.6cm. The work has not been traded before.
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, The House by the Sea, Sound of Iona, sold for $73,600, more than twice the low estimate at Bonhams, Edinburgh. Oil On Canvas, Laid To Board, 37.5 x 44.5cm. The work has been traded twice in the past.
George Leslie Hunter, Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, sold for $141,700, more than one and a half times the low estimate at Bonhams, Edinburgh. Oil On Board, 60.9 x 50.8cm. The work has been traded twice in the past.