Glasgow artist Ken Currie painting achieves record price at auction

Glasgow artist Ken Currie's work, called "A Scottish Triptych: Nightshift, Departure, Saturdays", which depicts Glasgow in the 1980s, was sold this week for a record-breaking £100,000 at an auction in Edinburgh. Bonhams stated that it was a new world record for the artist having surpassed the previous figure of £31,000 set at the auctioneers in 2002.

The three panelled picture or tryptych "Scottish Triptych: Nightshift, Departure, Saturdays" is recognised as a work of great depth and has an unmistakable air of menace. Ken Currie was born in 1960 and graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1983. He is one of the generation of artists known as the New Glasgow Boys. The New Glasgow Boys were a new generation of bold, young figurative painters who studied at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s composed of Peter Howson, Ken Currie, Adrian Wiszniewski and the late Steven Campbell.

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