Jasmine & Moths (Pink) by Mary Fedden, £6000 at Kinghams.
They routinely attract interest from her strong private following as well as the keen batch of dealers who handle her works.
Two emerged at Gloucestershire saleroom Kinghams (25/18/15% buyer’s premium) at the end of last year, both consigned from the same Cotswold-based private collector.
One was a slightly surreal but strikingly tonal still-life painting titled Jasmine & Moths (Pink).
The 19¾ x 23½in (50 x 60cm) oil on canvas was signed and dated 1988 and had plenty of visual impact which helped it attract ‘extensive pre-sale interest’ ahead of the December 7 auction in Moreton-In-Marsh, said the saleroom.
Estimated at £3000-5000, it drew a number of bidders before it was knocked down at £6000 to a UK private collector.
Moonlit landscape
The Black Horse, a gouache by Mary Fedden, £2400 at Kinghams.
The other picture by the artist was a later and smaller work on paper which showed figures and a black horse in a moonlit landscape.
Measuring 10¼ x 11½in (26 x 29cm), the gouache was signed and dated 1998 and came with a label on the back for dealer Richard Hagen Gallery.
Pitched at £1500-2000, it sold above estimate at £2400, again to a private collector.
