£1,375
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture ft. S.J. Peploe at 150 | 668
Auction: Scottish Paintings & Sculpture ft. S.J. Peploe at 150
Signed and dated '26, pencil on buff paper
Provenance: From the collection of the late Dr Angus Gibson, to be sold to support the University of Edinburgh Art Collection
Exhibited: Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow, William McCance, September 1989
Note: McCance was a major proponent of the modern movement during the inter-war period. He lived in London during the 1920s with his wife, the artist Agnes Miller Parker. They became involved with the English avant-garde art world whilst maintaining links with Scotland. Their assimilation of Surrealism and Cubism was unusual amongst their Scottish contemporaries and can be seen in this rare, complex and fully-realised drawing. Such works led Hugh MacDiarmid to describe the couple in 1925 as 'unquestionably the most promising phenomena of contemporary Scotland in regard to art' (quoted in Alice Strang, A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-1950, Edinburgh 2017, p.10).