WILLIAM MACTAGGART P.R.S.A., R.A., F.R.S.E., R.S.W. (SCOTTISH 1903-1981) §
CHURCH THROUGH THE TREES
Estimate: £400 - £600
Auction: 11 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Charcoal
Dimensions
19.5cm x 25.5cm (7.75in x 10in)
Provenance
St Andrews Fine Art
Footnote
The gallery label verso indicates that this drawing is from Sir William MacTaggart's sketch books, and bears his Studio Stamp ref.233.
Sir WIlliam MacTaggart was the grandson of the renowned painter William McTaggart. He attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1918-1921, befriending William Gillies, Anne Redpath, John Maxwell, William Crozier and Adam Bruce Thomson, a consequential cohort that would come to be known as The Edinburgh School. MacTaggart cultivated an expressionist style which was only intensified by an encounter with Edvard Munch’s work at a 1931 Scottish Society of Artists exhibition. Like many early twentieth-century Scottish artists he made frequent trips to the south of France, and also painted scenes in the Scottish Borders and views from the window of his Edinburgh residence on Drummond Place.