Lot 17

ROBERT COLQUHOUN (SCOTTISH 1914-1962)
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SELF-PORTRAIT - 1938

Darkness & Light

Auction: 30 September 2026 from 10:00 BST

Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000

Description

Signed and dated lower centre, pencil drawing

Dimensions

26.5cm x 20cm (10.5in x 7.75in)

Provenance

A gift to the artist's mother and by descent to Mrs Sheila Wilson, the artist's sister;
Peter Nahaum at The Leicester Galleries, London;
Christie's London, The Poetry of Crisis: The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist & Avant-Garde Art 1930-51, 15th November 2006, Lot 252.

Footnote

Exhibited: Glasgow Print Studio, Colquhoun and MacBryde: A Retrospective, September 1990;
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, The Two Roberts: Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, 22 November 2014 - 24 May 2015.

Literature: The Green Book, Bristol, 1990, Vol. 3, No. 6, illu. p. 22, article by George Barker.

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