SIR ROBIN PHILIPSON R.A., P.R.S.A., F.R.S.A., R.S.W., R.G.I., D.Litt., L.L.D. (SCOTTISH 1916-1992) §
POLPERRO
£2,000
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Day Sale: 09 December 2021 | From 14:00
Description
Watercolour and gouache
Dimensions
37.5cm x 55.5cm (14.75in x 21.75in)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the late Dr Angus Gibson, to be sold to support the University of Edinburgh Art Collection
Exhibited: Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Robin Philipson 1916-1992, 1999, no.10, repr. col. pl.4
Note: This watercolour dates from c.1952
Philipson and his wife, the artist Brenda Mark, holidayed in Cornwall in 1952. As Philip Long has explained 'Both artists painted watercolours of Polperro, perhaps by way of a tribute to [Oskar] Kokoschka, who lived there for a year in the late 1930s...Their post-Cubist handling of the subject demonstrates the training both...had received at Edinburgh College of Art.' (Philip Long, Robin Phliipson 1916-1992, Edinburgh 1999, p.13.' Dr Gibson lent this work to the Philipson exhibition mounted by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1999.