Lost Joan Eardley painting found in charity shop sells for £29,500

Lost Joan Eardley painting found in charity shop sells for £29,500 36 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleBenjamin RussellThe estate of Audrey Walker courtesy of The Scottish GalleryJoan Eardley is known for her depictions of Glasgow's street children and the coastal landscapes of CatterlineA "long lost" painting by Joan Eardley - known for her depictions of Glasgow street children and an Aberdeenshire fishing village - has sold for £29,500 after being discovered in a charity shop.Staff at the shop in the East Midlands were curious about the artwork when they found a faded label on the back which linked it to The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh.The gallery was able to confirm it as Summer Fields by Eardley, and it has now been sold it to a private collector of Scottish art.The shop which found it wished to remain nameless, but gallery director Tommy Zyw said it was the largest single sale in the charity's history and would help it support medical research.More stories from Edinburgh, Fife & EastMore stories from ScotlandEardley, who was born in England in 1921 and moved to Scotland as a teenager, is known for her depictions of Glasgow's street children and the coastal landscapes of Catterline, an Aberdeenshire fishing village. She died at the age of 42 in 1963.Zyw described Eardley as "a star who continues to rise as her audience grows and more and more people engage with her subject and her life and work".Summer Fields was painted around 1961 and captures the "dying sunset spilling across the corner of a Catterline field".The estate of Joan Eardley courtesy of The Scottish GallerySummer Fields was painted a few years before Eardley's death in 1963Zyw told how the gallery is often contacted by owners of paintings to do valuations.He said most of the time they turn out to be framed posters or works by "family members, but occasionally they get something "very, very special"."This is jus...