1. Serene Scene
Estimate £8,000–£12,000 Sold £13,750
Last August, we lost one of our best-regarded artists and print makers, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder OBE, whose airy paintings and lithographs of flowers and cats charmed art lovers. Born in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1931, she studied fine and applied arts at Edinburgh University, leaving with a First Class degree. A Carnegie Travelling Scholarship from 1954–55 took her to Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia to study Byzantine art and architecture. From 1962 she taught at Edinburgh College
