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

A "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. Eardley, 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. 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". Zyw told how the gallery is often conta