JOHN MACLAUCHLAN MILNE R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1885-1957) §
HAYMAKING
Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Evening Sale | Lots 112- 206 | Thursday 05 June from 6pm
Description
Signed and dated '31, oil on canvas
Dimensions
51cm x 66cm (20in x 26in)
Provenance
Christie's Edinburgh, The Scottish Sale, 30 October 2003, lot 189
Private Collection, Scotland
Exhibited:
Portland Gallery, London, The Life and Works of John Maclauchlan Milne, 17 June – 9 July 2020, no.32, illus.col.p.45
Footnote
John Maclauchlan Milne began painting harvesting pictures early in his career, in Fife in the years before the First World War. It was a theme to which he returned many times. This painting is dated 1931, which was a year of success and change for the artist. In March he had a solo exhibition at Percy Moore Turner’s Independent Gallery in London. One of his works, Fleurs of 1930, was acquired by the French State for the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. However the support that he had enjoyed from collectors in Dundee, which had underwritten his trips to France, was ending. Haymaking may be one of his last French paintings; in future he would paint in Scotland.
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 his cataloguing of this work.