RENOWNED paintings by artist Peter Howson will go under the hammer at auction next month.
The sale of 33 of his largest and most controversial works will include his masterpiece Women Of America and a series of Holocaust paintings.
The large 2001 work depicts a group of American socialites positioned like a game of snakes and ladders.
Experts at McTear’s Auctioneers in Glasgow estimate the painting could fetch between £15,000 and £25,000 when it goes under the hammer there on November 10.
Howson has always maintained the artwork is anti-imperialist rather than anti-American.
His painting Crucifixion, which shows Christ in the pose of crucifixion but without the cross, also features in the sale and is estimated to fetch between £8000 and £12,000.
The 2011 work was previously on show in Glasgow’s St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, where it hung in the same location as its precursor, Salvador Dali’s Christ Of Saint John Of The Cross.
Brian Clements of McTear’s (pictured right) said: “Peter Howson has created some of the most memorable and distinctive paintings of any contemporary Scottish artist and these important pieces display quite clearly the powerful themes and painting style that permeates all his work.
“Howson has a reputation as a formidable figurative artist and nowhere is this more evident than in a series of three Holocaust paintings that will feature in the McTear’s auction.”
The 33 works are being sold by a number of anonymous collectors and it is estimated they will fetch between £75,000 and £118,000 in total.
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