£180k for Peploe art

A “near-perfect” oil painting of apples and pears by the leading Scottish colourist Samuel John Peploe could fetch £180,000 at auction in Edinburgh next month.

Peploe completed “Still Life with Tureen and Fruit” in 1926, when he was working in studios between Edinburgh and the south of France.

The artist, who was 55 years old at the time, was famously “obsessed” by creating the perfect still life and spent days setting up and rearranging objects for his compositions.