East Neuk captured on canvas

An IMPORTANT Scottish painting is estimated to make between £2,000 and £3,000 when it goes under the hammer tomorrow.

Conception of a Fifeshire Neuk by the Scottish artist Alan Ronald, exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1930, will be auctioned at the 19th and 20th century pictures and prints sale at Bonhams in Edinburgh

The artist imagined a typical East Neuk town with fishing boats pulled up to the harbour steps, the war memorial and the church nestling among the houses and shops with their corbie-steppit (crow step) gables. Ronald, whose work is in the War Artists Permanent Collection, as well as the Victoria and Albert Museum, was for many years the supervisor for art for West Fife.

Also featured in the sale is a charming, undated, view of the White House at Pittenweem.