Lot 23
VICTORIA CROWE O.B.E., F.R.S.E., R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1949-) §
A DETAIL OF A BATTLE - 1969
£1,071
Auction: 26 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Signed and dated lower right, watercolour, ink and pencil
Dimensions
22.5cm x 31.5cm (9in x 12.25in)
Provenance
Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh, cat.no.1763
Footnote
Victoria Crowe studied at Kingston School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. Owing to the strength of her 1968 postgraduate exhibition, she was invited to teach at Edinburgh College of Art by Sir Robin Philipson, the school’s head of painting and drawing. The present work dates to 1969, one year after Crowe and her husband had made the drastic decision to exchange swinging sixties London for the remote hamlet of Kitleyknowe in the Scottish Borders. For the next thirty years Crowe taught part-time at ECA, all the while cultivating her painting and drawing practice in her own time.
