Acclaimed artist’s paintings to be auctioned in her centenary year

0 Lyon & Turnbull, in Edinburgh, is set to auction off seven paintings by Joan Eardley. Pictures of children in the Townhead area of Glasgow, still lifes, landscapes and a seascape are among the works to be sold

A group of paintings by acclaimed artist Joan Eardley is to go under the hammer in an online auction this week in the centenary year of her birth.

Pictures of children in the

Townhead area of Glasgow, still lifes, landscapes and a seascape are among the seven works which will be sold by Edinburgh-based Lyon & Turnbull on Thursday.

Eardley, who is currently the subject of a year-long celebration of her life and work to mark 100 years since her birth, died aged just 42 in 1963.

A highlight of the sale is an "exceptionally" rare late still life of summer flowers painted by Eardley in the village of Catterline on the Aberdeenshire coast.

The oil painting, Jar of Summer Flowers, thought to be painted in 1962, has an estimate of between £30,000 to £50,000.

Eardley, who had a studio in Cochrane Street, Glasgow, is renowned for her pictures of children in the city, some of which also feature in the sale such as Children Playing in the Street, estimated at £4,000 to £6,000.

Nick Curnow, head of paintings at Lyon & Turnbull, said: "The works on sale this week represent each of the key areas of Eardley's oeuvre and help tell the story of this extraordinary woman's life.

"The Jar of Summer Flowers is an extraordinary painting up close. Only a very small group of Eardley still lifes exist, dating exclusively to a short time period between 1961 and her death in August 1963.

"Her oil paintings are hugely expressive. She was such a physical painter. You can see thatinthelayersofpaintandthe ways in which she applied it.”