£47,500
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture ft. S.J. Peploe at 150 | 668
Auction: Scottish Paintings & Sculpture ft. S.J. Peploe at 150
Oil on canvas
Provenance: The Scottish Gallery, Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh;
The Fine Art Society, London 1968;
Spink & Son, London, K2 5771
Note: This work comes from a series of still lifes which date from the period in which Peploe established his reputation as one of Scotland’s leading painters. After success at the Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Glasgow Institute annual exhibitions, he had his first solo exhibition in Edinburgh in 1903. Still Life with Books contains all the qualities with which Peploe made his name: a sensuous use of oil paint, a structural use of bright colour amidst a muted palette and a harmonious arrangement of objects which suggest a sophisticated life-style. Other works in the series are held in Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, The Fleming Collection, London and Aberdeen Art Gallery.