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)

Apollo | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

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 ...

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