Lot 166
JOHN MACLAUCHLAN MILNE R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1885-1957) §
SOUTH OF FRANCE
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Evening Sale | Lots 109 to 207 | Thursday 04 December 2025 from 6pm
Description
Signed, oil on board
Dimensions
41cm x 51cm (16in x 20in)
Provenance
Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow
Footnote
With encouragement from supporters in Dundee, Maclauchlan Milne made his first visit to the South of France in 1924, returning to Scotland that September. His dated paintings of St Tropez and Ramatuelle were part of his subsequent studio exhibition in March, and were shown at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1925.
In following years his recorded paintings indicate that, on his various trips until 1931, he roamed along the Côte d’Azur from L’Estaque west of Marseilles to Carros and St Paul de Vence near Nice. Only some of his paintings are dated and many, such as this one, have generic titles which give no hint of the actual location.
In the 1930s his focus was on the Scottish Highlands and later the island of Iona; in the 1940s and ‘50s, he lived and worked on the island of Arran, but the mid- and late-1920s was his period along the Côte d’Azur.
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 help with our research.
