A painting by Joan Eardley — one of Scotland’s most popular 20th-century artists — is to go under the hammer for a knock-down price after its previous owners took the “strange” decision to lighten some dark clouds to “blend in with the sky”.
The work, entitled Sea, Cliffs and Lighthouse, features a small Aberdeenshire fishing village where Eardley rented a cottage and was most likely painted between 1960 and 1963, the year of Eardley’s untimely death aged 42.
It is up for sale at an estimated price of £30,000 — significantly lower than much of her works which can fetch more than £200,000.
The oil painting was sold by Bonhams, in Edinburgh, in 2014, from the estate of the late professors Sir Kenneth and
