A STILL-LIFE painting which hung in a spare room for 50 years because its original owner did not like it has been auctioned for £225,000.
Pink Roses by Scottish Colourist Samuel John Peploe went under the hammer in the sale of Scottish still lifes, fine and contemporary pictures at McTear's Auctioneers.
The oil-on-canvas was acquired by a man in Glasgow in the early 1960s, who was instructed by his wife to buy a painting of some roses. Upon seeing it, she decided she did not like it and it was put in a spare room for several decades.
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