Object lessons: from a Naïve townscape to Sub-Saharan sculpture

British Naïve school, The Market Street, Haddington (around 1850)Exhibition of Antique Folk Art, Robert Young Antiques, London, 5-14 May
Priced at £20,000As testified by an old label on the back, this 19th-century townscape depicting the Market Street in Haddington, in East Lothian, Scotland, passed through London’s Rutland Gallery in the 1970s. Its director, Christopher Bibby, was a great champion of humble British Naïve art. The oil on canvas is the largest and most sign