WILLIAM CROSBIE R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1915-1999) §
STUDY FOR 'WOMB FROM WOMB'
Auction: 14 July 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Inscribed with Crosbie estate number 360A verso, ink and wash
Dimensions
48cm x 38cm (19in x 15in), unframed
Footnote
Note: Study for Crosbie's painting 'Womb from Womb', currently on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Crosbie painted 'Womb from Womb' during the Second World War, in 1941. It is a monumental self-portrait demonstrating Crosbie’s increasing interest in surrealism. The painting was made five years after the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, which was hugely influential on the art of many English and Scottish painters. Such surrealist work was however a rarity among the relative conservatism of the Scottish art scene of the period, and so demonstrates Crosbie’s innovative and highly inventive outlook.