£1,250
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture | 692
Auction: Evening Sale
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In 1918 Fergusson spent six months working in Portsmouth after receiving permission from the Admiralty to 'gather impressions for painting a picture' (letter from Commodore Sir Douglas Brownrigg to J. D Fergusson of 9 July 1918, Imperial War Museum Archive, file ref. 216/6, no. 27). This work is one of the resultant sketches and drawings which informed a series of paintings he made on return to his studio in London (see Alice Strang, 'Go to Portsmouth to gather impressions for painting a picture': The World War One Work for the Admiralty of J. D. Fergusson (1874-1961)', The British Art Journal, Vol XVI, No.3, Winter 2015/16, pp. 98-102).