Lenkiewicz works to be auctioned

The 60-year-old artist died in August 2002

Works by the late Plymouth artist Robert Lenkiewicz are to be sold at auction in Devon next month.

About 500 lots from the artist's estate - including one that is 11m (36ft) long - go under the hammer in April at Westpoint near Exeter.

Five years ago an initial sale of 600 works made more than £1m.

When Lenkiewicz died in 2002, aged 60, he had work in progress at seven different studios on and around Plymouth's Barbican.

The lots are expected to go for anything between £20 to £150,000.

The sale includes work spanning the painter's life, with drawings and sketches from the 1950s when Lenkiewicz lived in Hampstead to work completed in the year of his death.

Some of the artist's artefacts to be sold include furniture, beds, skulls, dresses, books, studio artefacts and materials, all of which were in use at the time he died.

Alongside brushes and paints, there are dozens of palettes as they were left in situ covered with paint, and examples from the Lenkiewicz Library including a group of leather-bound bibles and books on erotica, witchcraft, vampirism and sexual fantasy.

A free exhibition of more than 500 paintings, drawings and artefacts from the Barbican studios is open to the public for two days before the sale.