AN important still life by Scottish colourist Samuel Peploe is expected to fetch up to £300,000 at auction.
The artwork, Mixed Roses in Chinese vase, which was created at a pivotal time in Peploe's career, will lead Bonhams annual Scottish pictures sale on August 20.
Peploe first explored still life in the early 1900s when there was no tradition for the genre in Britain.
His early, pre-First World War paintings were on a small scale and featured everyday objects set against a dark background.
However, after his return from Paris in 1912, the artist became more experimental and obsessed with painting the perfect still life.
Christ Brickley of Bonhams Edinburgh said: "This transitional work has an arresting red ground and employs the typical cropped forms, flattened picture space and motifs which are hallmarks of his pictures."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article