MODERN 20th CENTURY ART + DESIGN
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MODERN 20th CENTURY ART + DESIGN 27 SEPTEMBER - 9 NOVEMBER 2019
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George Houston R SA R SW 1869-1947
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Iona
signed, titled and dated 1901 oil on canvas · 28 x 36 inches provenance:
T & R Annan and Sons Ltd., Glasgow
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Sir William Oliphant Hutchison PR SA 1889-1970
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Seascape, Canary Islands
oil on canvas laid on board · 9 x 12 inches
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Cecile Walton 1891-1956
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Cover for Lycophron and Lyrics
signed and inscribed with title ‘Lycrophon [sic] and Lyrics by Lilian M. Worthington’ in pencil pencil, pen and ink · 12½ x 18½ inches provenance:
private collection, England
note: Lycophron of Chalcis was a Greek poet and scholar (flourished 3rd century B C).
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Cecile Walton 1891-1956
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The Chopin Waltz
signed; titled in pencil pencil, pen and ink · 8½ x 7 inches provenance:
private collection, England
Cecile Walton 1891-1956
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Maremma
titled in pencil and initialled CW pencil, pen and ink · 5¼ x 8¼ inches provenance:
private collection, England
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Albert Gordon Thomas R SW 1893-1970
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The Magic o’ the Isles
signed oil on board · 40 x 50 inches exhibited:
Royal Glasgow Institute, 1935, no.198
note: The Storr at Trotternish on the Isle of Skye is a remarkable rock formation of spiky pinnacles, the remnants of ancient landslips. The Old Man and other peaks tower above the viewer.
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Ben Nicholson OM 1894-1982
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Still Life, Torre del Grillo, Rome, 1955
signed, titled and dated Oct 55 verso pencil and thin wash on Bristol board · 14½ x 18½ inches note: Nicholson stayed at Torre del Grillo, Piazza del Grillo, Rome on two occasions in 1954 and 1955 as the guest of Jenny Nicholson, the eldest child of Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson.
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Anne Redpath OBE ARA R SA 1895-1965
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Wayside cemetery, Corsica
signed; titled on label verso oil on board · 20 x 30 inches provenance: Britton Pears Estate and Sir Peter Pears CBE , and by descent
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Thomas Symington Halliday MBE FR SA 1902-1998
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Kneeling figure
signed wood and bronze paint · 13 inches height
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Talbert McLean 1906-1992
1 0 Abstraction in Green and Red, c.1950 oil on canvas ¡ 20 x 24 inches provenance:
the artist’s estate
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Hannah Frank 1908-2008
1 1 Seated Figure signed H Levy; signed and titled in pen to base clay · 9¾ x 4 x 6½ inches note: For the first 22 years of her career following her studies at Glasgow School of Art, Hannah Frank produced art nouveau styled monochromatic drawings. From 1952 she focussed on the production of sculpture following her enrolment in sculpture classes at the Glasgow School of Art. Many of these sculptures focus on the form of women. Frank’s style was influenced by teachers and contemporaries such as Benno Schotz and Henry Moore, though the long limbs and refined shaping of her figures render them distinct.
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George Nelson 1908-1986
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham HR SA 1912-2004
1 2 ‘Cup Cake’ chest of drawers
1 3 St Andrews Bay Series (Rain), no.30
combed oak with walnut inlay · 18½ x 40 x 40 inches
signed and dated 1981 to mount; signed, titled and dated on old backboard verso mixed media on board · 7¾ x 10½ inches provenance: private collection, Edinburgh; Barns-Graham catalogue number 40/81/L
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Robert MacBryde 1913-1966
Borge Mogensen 1914-1972
1 4 Still Life with Bones, c.1959
1 5 Card table
signed, inscribed with title on stretcher verso oil on canvas ¡ 18 x 20 inches
Soborg Mobler, Denmark teak and beech ¡ 24 x 26 (38 extended) x 19 inches
provenance: with Museum Street Gallery, London, where purchased by Oliver Luard, circa 1961-62
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Peter Lanyon 1918-1964
1 6 Pink I signed verso oil and plaster on board · 171/2 x 71/2 inches provenance: by descent to Sheila Lanyon, the artist’s wife; with Gimpel Fils, London 1975 exhibited: Gimpel Fils, ‘Peter Lanyon, 1918-1964: Reliefs, Constructions and Related Paintings’, London, May-June 1975, no.12 note: Peter Lanyon was born in St Ives and experienced its development as an artists’ town first hand. The work that he produced was informed by his deeply rooted sense of connection to the Cornish landscape. Of the St Ives artists in the 1950s, Lanyon was one of the most international, having solo shows in New York in 1957 and 1969. He absorbed the developments of American Abstract Expressionsim, and this was reinforced by seeing the first British exhibition of Jackson Pollock’s work held at the Whitechapel in 1958.
With its dribbled paint and abstract gestural quality, ‘Pink I’ is evidently a response to Pollock’s painting, while also expressed in Lanyon’s personal idiom. He had Pink I hung in his studio with other similar works from 1959 until his death.
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Robert Henderson Blyth R SA R SW 1919-1970
Robert Henderson Blyth R SA R SW 1919-1970
1 7 Spanish Camerawoman, 1958
1 8 Still Life, 1956
signed in plate; from the edition of 70 lithograph · 10¼ x 11 inches
signed; titled on label verso; dated 1956 on plaque pen, ink and wash · 10¼ x 18¾ inches
note: An oil from 1955 in Aberdeen Art Gallery depicts a similar wheeled cart with folding panels to display the photographer’s work.
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Robert Henderson Blyth R SA R SW 1919-1970
1 9 A Cowhand signed ink and wash · 9¼ x 10¼ inches provenance: Macaulay Gallery, Stenton; The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
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Robert Henderson Blyth R SA R SW 1919-1970
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The Crab
signed ink and wash · 9½ x 12¼ inches provenance:
collection of William Crocket, Aberdeen Royal Scottish Academy, 1953, no.571; Aitken Dott, ‘Festival Exhibition’, 1955; Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, ‘R. Henderson Blyth Memorial Exhibition’, 1972; Scottish Gallery, ‘Summer Exhibition’, 1983. exhibited:
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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi CBE RA 1924-2005
2 1 Untitled (from Homage to Picasso), 1973 signed and numbered 52/90 in pencil lithograph · 30¼ x 22 inches note: The portfolio ‘Homage to Picasso’, printed in 1973 by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin and Pantheon Press, Rome, comprised prints by famed artists and printmakers in an edition of 90. Alongside Paolozzi, 69 artists contributed to the portfolio, including Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Miro, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol.
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Barbara Balmer R SA R SW 1929-2017
2 2 Black Parrot Tulips signed and dated June 1979 pencil and watercolour · 16½ x 21 inches exhibited: The Scottish Gallery, ‘Recent Paintings’, Edinburgh, June-July 1980
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John Houston OBE R SA 1930-2008
2 3 Sunset over the sea, Harris signed; signed, titled and dated 1975 on stretcher verso oil on canvas ¡ 30 x 40 inches provenance:
Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, 1998
note: In 1969 Houston was made artist in residence at the Prairie School, Wisconsin. The vast landscapes of Wisconsin proved inspirational and the influence of the expansive American scenery is clearly evident in the pictures made immediately following his return to Scotland.
Houston travelled to Harris throughout his lifetime and his first trip was in 1974.
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Sir Terence Conran CH FC SD b.1931
2 4 Small storage cabinet, designed 1952 painted square sectioned steel, african walnut and painted Masonite doors · 45 x 48 x 10 inches exhibited: The Design Museum, Terence Conran, ‘The Way We Live Now’, London, 2011 literature: see House & Garden, ‘Live Better for Less’, May 1953, for an identical cabinet in a different colour combination; see also House & Garden, February 1953, p.39, for a slightly different version note: This rare cabinet dates from the earliest period of Terence Conran’s independent design career, when he ran a basement workshop and showrooms underneath the headquarters of the Ballet Rambert in Notting Hill Gate. Conran had previously shared a railway arch in Bethnal Green as a workshop with his friend and former teacher, the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi. It was while there that Conran initially taught Paolozzi the rudiments of welding. This particular cabinet, designed and made by Conran himself, had an extremely limited production in 1952-3.
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Sir Peter Blake RA b.1932
2 5 The Fine Art Society Flag, 2012 digital print on fabric · 108 x 120 inches
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Bridget Riley CH CBE b.1931
2 6 Untitled (from the Rothko Memorial Portfolio), 1973 signed, numbered and dated ‘73 in pencil to margin; number 21 from the edition of 75 + 15 APs screenprint on Aquarelle Arches Satine · 32 x 30½ inches note: In 1973 the Mark Rothko Memorial Fund produced this portfolio containing prints by thirteen artists, including Riley, Patrick Caulfield, Patrick Heron, and Henry Moore.
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John Boyd 1940-2001
2 7 High Tea at no.9 signed oil on canvas | 40 x 48 inches provenance:
the artist’s estate
note: Boyd has depicted a childhood recollection of an afternoon with his family in the 1950s. The artist appears as a boy in the foreground, looking round from a table of family members in a traditional tenement, including his mother, father and brother.
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John Byrne R SA b.1940
John Byrne R SA b.1940
2 8 Guitar Player, c.1971
2 9 Hand painted guitar
signed pencil · 15¾ x 13 inches
signed ‘Patrick’ on head and reverse oil · 43 x 15½ x 4¼ inches
exhibited: Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh, 12-24 November 1973, cat. no.1
provenance:
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exhibited
private collection, London, since 1968 : Portal Gallery, London, 1968
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John Byrne R SA b.1940
John Byrne R SA b.1940
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3 1 Girl with Blackbird, c.1968-1969
Zeidler & Zeidler, 1971
signed watercolour · 6¾ x 6¾ inches
signed ‘Patrick’ watercolour and gouache · 16½ x 19 inches provenance:
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Portal Gallery, London, 1975
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Leon Morrocco R SA b.1942
3 2 The boys in the bath signed and dated 1975 pastel · 30 x 39 inches provenance:
the artist’s studio
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Graham Rich b.1945 from a private collection
3 3 Four boats tacking against the ebb signed, titled and dated 2005 verso found material and marine paint · 9½ x 9 inches
3 4 Four transit points
3 5 Reaching past Dodman Point
signed, titled and dated 2007 verso found material and marine paint · 3½ x 11½ inches
signed and dated 2004 verso, titled on backboard found material and marine paint · 8 x 6 inches
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3 6 Ghosting past Sandy Bay
3 8 Summer sunlight - Salcombe
signed, title and dated 2005 on backboard found material and marine paint · 6 x 11½ inches
signed, titled inscribed and dated 2007 verso found material and marine paint · 11 x 14½ inches
3 7 Windward tactics
3 9 Reaching into the Light
signed, titled and dated 2000 verso found material and marine paint · 7 x 7½ inches
signed, titled and dated 2006 on backboard found material and marine paint · 5 x 12 inches
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Published by the Fine Art Society in Edinburgh for the exhibition
MODERN 20th CENTURY ART + DESIGN
held at 6 Dundas Street, Edinburgh from 27 September to 9 November 2019 Catalogue Š The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh
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Designed by The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh Photography by John McKenzie Printed in the UK by Ivanhoe Caledonian
Front cover: Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Untitled (from Homage to Picasso), (cat. no.21) Inside front cover: John Byrne, Hand painted guitar, verso, (cat. no.29) Inside back cover: Sir Peter Blake, Fine Art Society Flag, (cat. no.25) Back cover: Talbert McLean, Abstraction in Green and Red, (cat. no.10)
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