13th Mar, 2025 10:00

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction

 
  Lot 134
 

* PETER GOODFELLOW (BRITISH 1950 - 2022)
DAWN AT DUNNOTTAR

oil on canvas, signed
framed

image size 122cm x 152cm, overall size 136cm x 166cm

Note 1: The painting was inspired by the attack on the English garrison on the site in 1297 by William Wallace during the first War of Independence. Wallace set fire to the chapel in which the English soldiers had taken shelter. Others were pushed over the cliffs into the North Sea.
Note 2: Peter Goodfellow's paintings rarely appear at auction and his UK auction record price was achieved in The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction 26th February 2017 when lot 15 BUACHAILLE ETIVE MOR sold for £2800 (hammer).
A notable (2000/02) commission by the Hon Phillip Astor to design and paint a series of 24 artworks and three stained glass windows for a private chapel in Migvie, (Tillypronie Estate) Aberdeenshire. Public and corporate collections include: Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi & Saatchi, Whitbread, Penguin Books, Baxter’s Foods, William Collins & Sons, Scandutch (Denmark), IC, National Savings, British Telecom, Quantas Airlines, Scania Motors (Sweden), Grisewood & Dempsey Publishers, Bergsoe 3 (Denmark), Peter Justenson (Denmark), Cidel Bank (Luxembourg), Intergrated Engineering Services (Aberdeen), The BBC, Duncan & Todd (Aberdeen) and CBC (Copenhagen).

 

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Sold for £2,800
Estimated at £2,000 - £4,000


 
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