The Yellow Jumper features a depiction of children in the now largely demolished neighbourhood of old Townhead.
One of the last finished paintings of Glasgow's street children by the artist Joan Eardley has sold for a record amount.
But when the artwork, one the final pieces completed by Eardley before she died at the age of 42 in 1963, went under the hammer, it sold for £200,200 - an auction record for a work by the artist.The painting, described as an "outstanding example" of the artist's work, shows two of the Samson siblings, members of a family of 12 children who lived near her studio and were amongst Eardley's favourite sitters.
The Yellow Jumper and six other pieces by Eardley were all included in auctioneer Lyon & Turnbull's biannual Scottish paintings and sculpture sale in Edinburgh - resulting in sales totalling more than £1.3 million.
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