As a South African who now lives in Australia, artist Simon Barlow probably has only a limited following in Britain. Hence the unspectacular price achieved for this original painting of grouse when it went under the hammer at a sale in Louth, Lincolnshire, last week. Auction house John Taylors had a pre-sale estimate of between £70 and £100 for the gouache painting which measures 66.5cm x 80cm and was included in a frame. In the event, the hammer came down at the lower end of the range - £75. Barlow, incidentally, is the illustrator of Gamebirds of Southern Africa.
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