SPORTING CLASSICS

Two rare sporting books – The Stalking Journal of Major General Henry Hope Crealock (estimated at £3550,000), and a first edition of William Jardine’s British Salmonidae, offered with an album of Jardine’s original sketches (estimated at £25-35,000) will lead Bonhams Sporting Sale in Edinburgh on 18 May. Both titles are from a collection of sporting books, many of which have not previously been offered at auction. The Wood Collection, to be sold in Edinburgh by Lyon & Turnbull on 9 June 2016, is one of the most important single groups of Colourist paintings to come on to the market in recent years. The paintings, valued at £1 million, were purchased between the 1920s and the 1940s by the Edinburgh collector Walter Quarry Wood, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, with the advice of Duncan Macdonald of the renowned dealers Alex Reid and Lefevre, and hung for many years in his family’s residence in the city’s New Town. The highlights of the collection are several paintings by FCB Cadell, with whom the Wood family had a personal connection. www.lyonandturnbull.com

Colourist roll call

A self portrait of David Bowie sold for £22,500, seven times its original estimate of £3-5,000, at Lyon & Turnbull’s Contemporary Art Auction in Edinburgh. The new owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a film and television producer and said, ‘I am a lifelong fan and am more than delighted to now own a piece of original art by David Bowie. The first album I ever bought was Aladdin Sane, released in 1973. He was, in my opinion, the greatest artist who ever lived, he will be greatly missed.’