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- Estimate
- £5,000–£7,000 hammer ≈ $8,792–$12,308
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — 20th Century British Art, London · 8 October 2008
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3794031
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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R.a. John Bellany, Bounteous Sea. Sotheby's, 8 Oct 2008, lot 198. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3794031.
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R.a. John Bellany, Bounteous Sea. Sotheby's, 8 Oct 2008, lot 198. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3794031.
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From the same sale 20th Century British Art · Oct 2008
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tree Trunk | John Bratby R.a. | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| Beside the Bridge | Carel Weight R.a. | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| Country Station | Julian Trevelyan R.a. | £10,000–£15,000 | |
| Back Alley Girl | Alan Lowndes | £8,000–£12,000 | |
| After Auschwitz | Tim Threlfall | £4,000–£6,000 | |
| The Garden Gate | Fred Yates | £3,000–£5,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| R.a. John Bellany | Woman with Black Hair | $10,490 | Sotheby's, Mar 2021 | |
| R.a. John Bellany | Flowers | Sotheby's, Mar 2022 | ||
| R.a. John Bellany | Still Life | Sotheby's, Nov 2022 | ||
| R.a. John Bellany | Sickert Strode these Streets, Dieppe | Sotheby's, Mar 2023 | ||
| R.a. John Bellany | Fishing Boat, Port Seton | Sotheby's, Nov 2020 | ||
| R.a. John Bellany | My Father | Sotheby's, Oct 2025 | ||
| R.a. John Bellany | the owl | Sotheby's, Nov 2018 | ||
| R.a. John Bellany | Celtic Lullaby | Sotheby's, Nov 2017 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.