Lot 22
JOHN G BOYD R.P., R.G.I (1940-2001)
STILL LIFE WITH CROUCHING NUDE
Contemporary Paintings & Prints
Auction: 1 September 2006 at 12:00 BST
Description
Signed, oil on board
Dimensions
61cm x 61cm (24in x 24in)
Footnote
Note:John Boyd was born in Stonehaven in 1940 and attended Mackie Academy where he was lucky enough to receive encouragement from James Morrison. He studied at the Gray's School of art in Aberdeen from 1958-1962 under Henderson Blyth before moving to Glasgow where he lived for the rest of his life. He became an art teacher, principally at Shawlands Academy and only in the last decade did he devote himself entirely to his work as an artist.
As Patrick Bourne states in a recent appreciation;-' Boyd began a long series of oil paintings drawing strongly from his childhood experiences....these paintings are ruminative and evocative compositions of fishermen, alone or in groups, standing quietly. Often they cradle model-sized boats inspired, according to the artist, by the early Italian paintings of prelates holding models of their churches.'
Boyd was a popular artist who exhibited widely in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Johannesburg. He is represented in public collections in Scotland and private colections in U.K, U.S.A, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Lebanon and Portugal.