£106,250
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture ft. S.J. Peploe at 150 | 668
Auction: Scottish Paintings & Sculpture ft. S.J. Peploe at 150
Signed, inscribed and dated 1916 verso, oil on panel
Provenance: Ian MacNicol, Glasgow
The Collection of the late R. L. MacDonald
Note: Peploe often visited his sister Anne and her husband, Dr Frederick Porter, in Comrie, Perthshire. He enjoyed painting the village and in this work of 1916 his subject is Comrie Parish Church. Viewed looking towards the north-east, its steeple emerges from trees and reaches into a richly described cloudy sky. Peploe used a similar geometric simplification of architecture and natural environment, realised with a gentle palette, in his contemporary depictions of Kirkcudbright.