WILLIAM MCCANCE (SCOTTISH 1894-1970) §
STILL LIFE WITH JUG AND FRUIT
£1,375
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Day Sale: 09 December 2021 | From 14:00
Description
Signed and dated '26, pencil on buff paper
Dimensions
15cm x 12.5cm (6in x 5in)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the late Dr Angus Gibson, to be sold to support the University of Edinburgh Art Collection
Exhibited: Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow, William McCance, September 1989
Note: McCance was a major proponent of the modern movement during the inter-war period. He lived in London during the 1920s with his wife, the artist Agnes Miller Parker. They became involved with the English avant-garde art world whilst maintaining links with Scotland. Their assimilation of Surrealism and Cubism was unusual amongst their Scottish contemporaries and can be seen in this rare, complex and fully-realised drawing. Such works led Hugh MacDiarmid to describe the couple in 1925 as 'unquestionably the most promising phenomena of contemporary Scotland in regard to art' (quoted in Alice Strang, A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-1950, Edinburgh 2017, p.10).