Lot 145
PETER MCLAREN (SCOTTISH B.1964) §
FIGURE WITH YELLOW SKY
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Description
Signed and indistinctly dated, oil on paper
Dimensions
47.5cm x 62cm (18.75in x 24.5in)
Footnote
Provenance: The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Biography:
Inspired early on by the Scottish Colourists and Post-War Expressionists, Peter McLaren studied at Edinburgh College of Art in 1986 and honed his distinctive style of expressionistic painting. As a student, he won the John Kinross Scholarship from the Royal Scottish Academy, which allowed him to study in Florence. He was also awarded the Richard Ford Award by the Royal Academy in London, which allowed him to study the works in the Prado, Madrid.
He continued to travel extensively throughout his education, travelling by bicycle to study important art collections across Europe. His early oil paintings were of youth in fast cars and figures on racing bikes, which were painted in an ‘action’ mode, followed by overscale still lives of parts of Velasquez’s Las Meninas.
McLaren’s originality and masterful compositions have subsequently seen him exhibit with the likes of Bellany, Lupertz and Baselitz.