Lot 164
JOHN MACLAUCHLAN MILNE R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1885-1957) §
THE GOATHERD
£47,700
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Evening Sale | Lots 103-196 | Thursday 05 December from 6pm
Description
Signed and dated 1920, oil on canvas
Dimensions
71cm x 91cm (28in x 36in)
Provenance
Christie's Scotland, Edinburgh, The Scottish Sale 28th October 2004, lot 263;
Private Collection, Scotland.
Footnote
John Maclauchlan Milne returned to Dundee in June 1919 from military service with the Royal Air Force in France and Belgium. He soon returned to France and his dated paintings from 1920 are mostly from Paris, but there are several from around Lavardin in the Loire Valley; The Goatherd is believed to be one of these. There is a companion piece, Champs aux Chevres, also dated 1920, which features a similar arrangement of figure, goats and trees and others from nearby Langeron.
Maclauchlan Milne’s first solo exhibition was in Murray’s Galleries in Dundee in March / April 1921 and a press report in the Dundee Evening Telegraph of 28 March 1921 explained that the works shown were ‘the result of a year’s painting in the Latin Quarter and the pastoral country south of Paris.’ The Goatherd may well have been included in this exhibition.
We are grateful to Maurice Millar, author of The Missing Colourist: The Search for John Maclauchlan Milne RSA (privately published in 2022 and available via The Missing Colourist website) for writing this catalogue note.
