£1,250
A Celtic Vision: A Private Collection of Scottish Paintings | 631
Auction: 25 February 2021 at 18:00 GMT
Inscribed and dated 1918 verso, conté drawing
Exhibited: Alexander Meddowes, J.D.Fergusson - Unseen Works, 2013/14, no.91
Note: In Margaret Morris's book on Fergusson 1974, p.103 she quotes him, 'When I came from London at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, I met one of Margaret Morris's best pupils, Kathleen Dillon, a very good looking girl...one day she arrived with a remarkable hat...Looking at Kathleen I soon saw that the hat was not merely a hat but a continuation of the girl's character, her mouth, her nostril, the curl of her hair - the whole character - like Burn's love is like a red, red rose'