A painting by the Scottish Colourist Samuel John Peploe has sold for £321,950 in Edinburgh.
Still Life With Oranges was exhibited in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1985.
It formed part of a sale at Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers last night which raised £1,359,549.
A sculpture, Eastre, Hymn to the Sun by fellow Colourist John Duncan Fergusson, went for more than double its valuation when it fetched £49,250.
The sculpture was part of a collection of works by JD Fergusson from private Scottish collections in the sale. Interest in his work has been heightened by a major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.
Two other bronze sculptures by Fergusson went under the hammer - Effulgence, which sold for £10,625, and Torse de Femme, which sold for £3000.
His work At the Dinner Table sold for £22,500 and a significant portrait Mademoiselle Cassavetes, painted in 1938, sold for £49,250, double its estimate. The organisers said it proved interest in Scottish art from around the world is still buoyant.
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