L.S. Lowry's Industrial Landscape: Stockport Viaduct, 1958, courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2012. UPDATE: THIS MADE £1,273,250.
Lowry, Lavery, Scott and Peploe are among the big names peppering Christie’s 20th century British and Irish art sales in London on May 23 and 24. Expected to realise more than £12 million the sales will feature over 300 lots with estimates from £500 to £1.8 million. L.S. Lowry’s Industrial Landscape: Stockport Viaduct, 1958 is, at £1.2 to £1.8 million, the most expensively estimated lot in an auction which features Scottish Colourists, London School artists, St. Ives, Neo-Romantics, sculpture, Pop Art and Irish art.
Aïda, a Moorish Maid by Sir John Lavery, courtesy Christies Images Ltd., 2012. UPDATE: THIS MADE £181,250.
The top Irish lot is Sir John Lavery’s Aïda, a Moorish Maid, estimated at £150,000-250,000. Works by Lavery and by William Scott dominate the Irish art section of the sale. The most expensively estimated works are all by Lowry. He set the two highest prices for any work in the category last year when Piccadilly Circus and The Football Match sold for £5.6 million in November and May respectively. Scottish Colourists feature strongly with work by Samuel John Peploe R.S.A. (1871-1935), John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961), Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell R.S.A. (1883-1937) and George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931). The Gorbals, 1944 by Edward Burra (£500,000-800,000) depicts urban decay in the modern slums of war-time Glasgow. A key Neo-Romantic work it will be offered from The Collection of Lord Forte (1908-2007) and is estimated at £500,000-800,000. The London School is showcased with work by Frank Auerbach (b.1931), David Bomberg (1890-1957) and William Roberts, R.A. (1895-1980). St. Ives is represented by Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003), Bryan Wynter (1915-1975), Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) and Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975). Rolling Over Horse,1980 (£120,000-180,000) by Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993) is one of a number of highly collectible sculptures. There is Pop Art by Gerald Laing (1936-2011), Joe Tilson (b.1928) and Allen Jones R.A. (b.1937). There are fine and highly collectible works by both Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) and Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959). The Bridle Path, Cookham, 1938, by Spencer has been in the same family since it was painted.
William Scott, Orange Still Life, courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2012. (£100,000-150,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
SIR JOHN LAVERY, Boating at Remenham (£20,000-30,000), courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2012. UPDATE: THIS MADE £39,650