{"id":74069,"date":"2025-05-04T14:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74069\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:38:26","slug":"peploe-masterpiece-for-sale-at-bonhams-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74069\/","title":{"rendered":"Peploe masterpiece for sale at Bonhams Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

A century-old still life masterpiece by the leading Scottish Colourist Samuel John Peploe could fetch up to \u00a3350,000 at auction in Edinburgh this month.<\/p>\n

The oil painting \u201cRoses in a Green Jug\u201d was completed around 1925, when Peploe was at the peak of his artistic career, working in a studio in Shandwick Place, Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

It was bought by his patron, the Glasgow shipping magnate Major Ion R. Harrison, and hung in his home, Croft House, in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire.<\/p>\n

The signed 22 x 18 inch oil painting on canvas will be among the highlights of Bonhams\u2019 Scottish Art Sale on May 21, where it is expected to attract bids of \u00a3250,000-350,000.<\/p>\n

May Matthews, Managing Director, Bonhams Scotland, said: \u201cPeploe\u2019s Roses in a Green Jug is a masterful execution of composition and colour, taking inspiration from Paul Cezanne and French Post-Impressionism, while maintaining the artist\u2019s distinctive individual style.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeploe\u2019s still lifes were meticulously planned and executed, creating the dialogue between object and space for which he and his fellow Colourists were renowned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work has a remarkable provenance, having once hung in the drawing room of Croft House owned by Ion R. Harrison, a notable patron of the Scottish Colourists.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect significant interest for this rare and exciting work offered at auction for the very first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other highlights in the sale include paintings by Peploe\u2019s fellow Colourists F.C.B. Cadell\u2019s and George Leslie Hunter.<\/p>\n

Cadell\u2019s portrait of May Easter could fetch \u00a340,000-60,000, while his landscape depicting The Island of Rhum from Iona is expected to make \u00a330,000-50,000, while Hunter\u2019s Still Life with Jug carries an estimate of \u00a320,000-30,000.<\/p>\n

S.J. Peploe, born in Edinburgh in 1871, was the eldest of the four Scottish Colourists, who also included John Duncan Fergusson, George Leslie Hunter and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell.<\/p>\n

Peploe spent much of his career on a quest to produce the perfect still life, and became renowned for his compositions.<\/p>\n

In a letter, he wrote: \u201cThere is so much in mere objects, flowers, leaves, jugs, what not \u2014 colours, forms, relations \u2014 I can never see the mystery coming to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Major Harrison first encountered Peploe\u2019s work at an exhibition in Glasgow in 1921 and was captivated by his still lifes.<\/p>\n

He became a close friend and patron of Peploe and the other Scottish Colourists, and built a remarkable collection of their works.<\/p>\n

Harrison considered all four artists \u201cequally great, each in his own special way\u201d and hung their work in Croft House side by side \u201cin glorious harmony\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"Saltire News and Sport Ltd SJ Peploe Roses in a Green Jug_02.jpg ROSES IN A GREEN JUG, A STILL LIFE PAINTING BY THE SCOTTISH COLOURIST ARTIST SAMUEL JOHN PEPLOE, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO FETCH \u00a3250,000-350,000 AT AUCTION IN EDINBURGH, THE CITY WHERE IT WAS PAINTED ALMOST EXACTLY A CENTURY AGO, AROUND 1925. SEE STORY FROM GEORGE MAIR, SALTIRE NEWS, 07703 172 263 Tel: Mobile: 07703 172 263 E-mail: george@saltirenews.com\"\"PHOTO Saltire News and Sport Ltd
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