WE WANT YOUR BLACKADDERS FOR SALE
This August The Scottish Gallery will celebrate the life and work of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder with a major exhibition of works for sale.
The Scottish Gallery offers a comprehensive and discreet service to those seeking advice on valuation or wishing to sell works of art. Sometimes it will be our advice to seek an appraisal with an auctioneer but these days the costs of conducting business at auction, particularly for a potential vendor, are such that today the Gallery option is much more attractive. How much better to have an entirely private arrangement with The Scottish Gallery. Do get in touch for a free appraisal and advice from Guy Peploe, Tommy Zyw and Christina Jansen, who between them have over sixty years of experience of the market to draw on.
Please contact The Gallery here to discuss consigning work for sale.
Elizabeth Blackadder was without question, one of Scotland’s greatest artists. She was very important to The Scottish Gallery, with an exhibition history spanning 6 decades, including 11 solo exhibitions, countless mixed and themed presentations. We have sold over a thousand artworks on her behalf, including to public collections. This long creative collaboration can have few comparisons in Scottish art.
Elizabeth Blackadder was born in Falkirk in 1931. She studied at ECA from 1949 until 1954 under Robert Henderson Blyth and William Gillies inter alia and earned travelling scholarships to southern Europe and Italy. In 1956 she married artist and fellow Scottish Gallery exhibitor John Houston and began teaching in Edinburgh. She taught at Edinburgh College of Art from 1962 until her retirement in 1986. One of Scotland’s greatest artists, she also garners recognition nationally and in 2001, Elizabeth was made the first female Artist Limner by HRH The Queen, a position within the Royal Household unique to Scotland. One decade later, to coincide with the artist’s 80th birthday a major retrospective of her work opened at the National Galleries of Scotland.
Elizabeth Blackadder is perhaps best known for her detailed yet lyrical watercolours of flowers, ‘table-top’ compositions using Oriental objects and her beloved cats. Trips to Japan and Venice and a greater emphasis on oil can be seen in landscape and townscape pieces as well as important still life series using decorated tins and boxes arranged with exotic fish, fruit and vegetables.
She is the subject of many recent Gallery publications. Please click here to discover more.
