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Article: Conservative realism, high glamour and war-time brutality vied for attention at Gleneagles in September, while Aboriginal art sold for record prices in Australia.(Market Review)
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September saw a record sale for Sotheby's in Scotland, with the auction-house's annual Scottish and sporting pictures sale at Gleneagles, Auchterarder, achieving a record 5.4m [pounds sterling]. Individual records were set for works by Joseph Farquharson, F.C.B. Cadell and Peter Howson, while competition for the top lot of the sale, Jack Vettriano's Mad dogs, pushed it up to 330,400 [pounds sterling], the second highest price ever paid for a painting by the artist at auction. Despite the so-called 'Vettriano factor'--the phenomenal popularity of the Fife born painter Jack Vettriano that has not only seen huge prices for the artist's work but has also drawn a whole new ...
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... ... Master by Hans Holbein is to be sold at Sotheby's in July. Holbein's 1541 Portrait ... Younger is expected to sell for up to [pounds sterling]3 million. The painting was last ... 1974, as an anonymous work, for [pounds sterling]2,800. It was identified as a ...
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