28th Feb, 2021 13:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
THE ALLOTMENT, A WATERCOLOUR BY AVRIL PATON
* AVRIL PATON (SCOTTISH b 1941),
THE ALLOTMENT
watercolour on paper, signed
45cm x 90cm
Mounted, framed and under glass
Provenance: acquired by the vendor from Gatehouse Gallery, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock.
Label verso: Gatehouse Gallery, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock. Inscribed with title, artist's name and dated 1995.
Note: a remarkably rare work by Avril Paton, the artist who painted "Windows in the West", one of Scotland's best known and most popular contemporary paintings which was acquired for the nation by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and is currently on display at Kelvingrove Gallery, Glasgow. There has been much written about Paton's work from the 1990's explaining the meticulous detail and the many months it took to complete a single picture. Paton eventually moved on to a more spontaneous abstract style of work and consequently her watercolours from the 1990's are a distinct isolated body of work and the examples from this time are few and rarely, if ever, appear at auction. However, in The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction on 16th August 2020 lot 591 Topping Out Day by Avril Paton was sold for a new auction record price of £8000. The Allotment has been consigned from the same collection. Avril Paton's work from this period has been studied as part of the curriculum for many of the nation's youth and there are several talks and discussions on YouTube.
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Sold for £2,200
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500
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