Lot 155
JOHN MACLAUCHLAN MILNE R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1885-1957) §
MARKET DAY, SOUTH OF FRANCE
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Evening Sale ft. A Century of Scottish Colourists Part II | Lots 90 to 169 | Thursday 03 December 2026 from 6pm
Description
Signed, oil on canvas, with an unfinished sketch verso
Dimensions
38cm x 55.5cm (15in x 22in)
Footnote
John Maclauchlan Milne arrived in St Tropez in 1924, his first visit to the Côte d’Azur. During his visits from 1924 to 1930, he ranged all along the south coast and there are named paintings from L’Estaque west of Marseilles to St Paul de Vence near Nice. The location of the market in the present work is not known, however many of his Riviera paintings are of busy street or harbour scenes with figures, such as this. Maclauchlan Milne’s Cote d’Azur paintings featured in his solo exhibitions with art dealers Reid & Lefèvre in Glasgow in 1927 and 1929. The Glasgow Herald (23 September 1927) decided that ‘Mr Milne’s colour is attractive and intelligently used’: a fitting contribution from a colourist.
We are grateful to Maurice Millar, author of The Missing Colourist: The Search for John Maclauchlan Milne RSA (available via www.themissingcolourist.co.uk ), for his cataloguing of this work.
