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Lyon & Turnbull | Online Auction Specialists  

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Lyon & Turnbull

Our Spring 2026 Contemporary Art auction features a selection of significant works by key Scottish artists including a striking group of mixed media works by Dame Barbara Rae depicting some of her favourite landscapes in Scotland, Ireland and Spain; two early career works by Joyce Cairns, including one painted while she was still in art school and participating in a summer school at Hospitalfield and two important John Bellany works, one inspired by a period spent in Mexico in the mid-1990s and the other from his Obsession series of the 1970s. &nbsp; &nbsp;The auction also features two striking collections, a vibrant selection of artworks from An Edinburgh Private Collection of Contemporary Art led by a bold painting by Pat Douthwaite and featuring a selection of further paintings by artists including John Lowrie Morrison and Gordon Mitchell and print works by artists as varied as David Shrigley and Peter Doig. We are also pleased to offer the first part of Y2K! Selected Works from an Important Private Collection of Contemporary Art, led by Piotr Uklanski’s sparkling photograph, Untitled (Starlit Water).We are delighted to continue to feature strong representation from other ever-popular Scottish artists including Elizabeth Blackadder, John Houston, James Morrison and Michael Scott and a further group of three playful Blakam’s Stone painted sculptures by Nicholas Party.&nbsp;

Browse a selection of lots from our upcoming sale.

Specialists' Selection

Diego

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Kate

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A Century of Selling the Scottish Colourists

ELIZABETH PEYTON (AMERICAN 1965-)

Join us at exhibitions, events and valuation days taking place across the UK, with opportunities to view highlights and speak with our specialists.

Events & Auction Valuation Days at Lyon & Turnbull in the UK

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Events & Valuation Days 

Free Auction Valuations: Online, Edinburgh, London, Glasgow

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Sell With Us

Discover more about the life & works of some of the most prominent artists, designers, makers & authors we are proud to have sold works by at auction.
 
Pictured: Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881 - 1973)

Giulia

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Pablo Picasso | Spanish 1881 - 1973

Artists, Authors, Designers & Makers

John Bellany’s powerful 1973 painting Obsession, from the artist’s formative early period, features in our March 2026 Contemporary Art sale.

The Collector Behind Brushes Across Empire: Sir James Stewart Lockhart

Watch | Collections at Lyon & Turnbull

A Century of Selling the Scottish Colourists

Y2K! Viewing Exhibition in London

Events & Valuation Days

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Artists, Authors, Designers & Makers

OBSESSION - 1973

Y2K! The Noughties Art Explosion

Art With Attitude

A Life in Art: Works from the Collection of Roger Lloyd Pack

The History & Design of the Patek Philippe Nautilus