Bonhams' Annual Scottish Sale began this week with a heady total of £1.25m for paintings. the leading lot was Anne Redpath's beautiful 1937 painting, 'Still Life with Michaelmas Daises' which quadrupled its low estimate to sell for £134,000 (pre-sale estimate: £30,000- 50,000).

Redpath's "Cagnes" garnered £114,000 against an estimate of £60,000 – 80,000. George Leslie Hunter's vibrantly coloured 'Still Life' made £144,000 and one of Samuel John Peploe's iconic paintings of Iona sold for £86,000.

In total the paintings sale made over £1,250,000 with 86% sold by lot and 94% sold by value.

The Scottish sale continues over the next three days and includes, tomorrow, the auction of a bottle of whisky recovered from the 'Whisky Galore' shipwreck.