Peter Howson Coping with Financial Problems, Peter Howson Sells Paintings at Auction Peter Howson Paints Madonna and ‘Ogre’ Artist Blasts eBay for Forgeries Material Girl, Sans Material New Zealander to Head Troubled Scottish Opera

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Madonna & Guy, an admittedly rather unflattering likeness by Peter Howson, was estimated to rake in between £15,000 ($24,603) and £22,000 on Saturday at McTear’s, the Glasgow-based Scottish auction house, but didn’t sell — despite generating unprecedented press coverage, a McTear's representative said. The painting had been commissioned by a Scottish collector in 2005 and was one of many the Scottish artist had painted of Madonna.

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