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Work by Alberto Morrocco goes under the hammer for £85,000

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Paintings by the late Dundee artist Alberto Morrocco have raised more than £85,000 at an auction in Edinburgh.

Highest price paid was for The Harbour, Aberdeen, which fetched £24,000.

The sale of Still Life with Fruit and Sunflower (£19,200), Girl with Caged Bird (£18,000), Two Figures on a Beach (£14,400) and Afternoon at Fondachello (£9600) brought the combined total to £85,200.

The lots are part of the yearly Bonhams Scottish Sale, which is taking place at the Queen Street saleroom and runs until Friday.

A spokesman for Bonhams said the works, which went to a mixture of Scottish and English buyers, “all did well” to be bought at around their estimated value.

Other lots to be auctioned this week include a rare first edition Oor Wullie annual, Christmas gifts from Queen Victoria to John Brown, paintings by the Scottish Colourists and a bottle of whisky salvaged from the Whisky Galore ship SS Politician.

Aberdeen-born Morrocco joined the city’s Gray’s School of Art at 14 and in 1950, after being demobbed, he became head of painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, holding the post until 1983. He died in Dundee in 1998.

The Oor Wullie annual, which dates from 1940, goes under the hammer on Friday and is estimated to attract bids in the region of £800 to £1200. It is described as “very scarce” and has childish pencil drawings inside.