Painting by Colourist Cadell sells for record £874,000
A NEW record for the work of Scottish Colourist Francis Cadell has been set at auction, with one of his paintings selling for £874,000.
Reflection, from 1915, was part of a sale of a collection of Colourist works that sold for £4.5 million at an auction at Sotherby’s.
The auctioneers, in London, said that the sale from the Harrison Collection had exceeded expectations.
Reflection was given an estimate of up to £600,000.
The sale of the painting for nearly £900,000 overtook a previous auction record set by the similarly named Reflections, sold at Sotheby’s in 2013 for £686,500.
The painting was the top lot in a sale of The Colourists: Pictures from the Harrison Collection, a group of more than 30 pictures which formed “one of the most exceptional collections of Scottish Colourist works in private ownership”, Sotherby’s said.
The Harrison Collection was assembled in the 1920s and 1930s by Major Ion Harrison, a close friend of the artists.
The works were passed down through the family, and remained together, until recently, at Croft House in Helensburgh.
Francis CB Cadell lived and worked from 1883 to 1937, mostly in Edinburgh.
Cadell’s The White Room, also from 1915, sold for £670,000, above its estimate, while The Pink Azaleas, from the 1920s, made £394,000.
Works by another leading Colourist, Samuel Peploe, also sold with high prices: Trees, Antibes, and Michaelmas Daisies and Oranges, which sold for £586,000 and £490,000.