Pictures
Over a year, McTear's will sell several thousand works by Scottish, English &
Continental artists. The most valuable pictures will be generally included in monthly
antiques & art auction, and every week, around forty to sixty lots of oil paintings,
watercolours & prints grace
the saleroom walls at McTear's, with estimates from only
£20-30.
McTear’s has now introduced Contemporary Art auctions to the annual calendar and these
will feature several times a year.
Sold for £6,500
Jessie Marion King ASWA (1875-1945) Twas Bent Beneath And Blue Above Twas Nodding Grass
And Naked Sky And Born Before The Wastrel Wind The Thistle Down Went Floating By pen, ink
and watercolour on vellum, signed and inscribed with the title 34.5cm x 48.5cm The rhyme
is taken from the working of The Last Rhyme of True Thomas by Rudyard Kipling (1893)
Provenance: Duncan Miller Fine Arts. London and Barclay Lennie Fine Art Limited,
Glasgow.
Sold for £15,000
David Shepherd OBE, FRSA (born 1931) Portrait of a Lion oil on canvas, signed 76cm x 63cm
The artist studied art under professional artist, Robin Goodwin, with early commissions
for the RAF taking him to Aden in 1960, then on to Kenya. This trip changed his life. He
was asked to paint his first wildlife subject and at the same time, he became a
conservationist overnight when he witnessed 255 zebra dead around a waterhole poisoned by
poachers. Provenance: The Fox Collection, purchased directly from the artist circa 1970
Ian Fox, born in 1926, is the son and grandson of the co-founders of Fox's Glacier Mints,
the world famous confectionary company. Ian and his late wife, Marjorie, were avid
collectors of antiques and added substantially to the Fox Collection mainly prior to 1972
when they retired to Portugal. This painting was retained by the family following the
famous Fox Collection auction at McTear's in 2002 as it remained their favourite of the
two Shepherd works, the Just Elephants work was sold for £45,000