Anne Redpath OBE RSA ARA LLD ARWS ROI RBA (British, 1895-1965) Market - Gran Canaria 55.8 x 91.5...
Anne Redpath OBE RSA ARA LLD ARWS ROI RBA (British, 1895-1965)
Market - Gran Canaria
signed 'Anne Redpath' (lower right)
oil on board
55.8 x 91.5 cm. (22 x 36 in.)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to Dr Ralph Kauntze, thence by descent.
Literature
P Bourne, Anne Redpath 1895-1965: Her Life and Work, Edinburgh, 1989, p.89.
Anne Redpath is one of the most important Scottish artists of the twentieth century. Painted on a large-scale board, with a powerful and richly intense palette, the present work reflects the confidence of her later work. Pure vibrant colour has been used to convey the heat of the sun radiating off the buildings and parasols in this bustling marketplace. Gifted by Redpath to her doctor, it has remained in the same family for over 6 decades.
Patrick Bourne retells the story in his major Redpath biography:
'While she was in London for the opening of her second exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery in 1959, Anne Redpath suffered a second coronary thrombosis. She had never lost the feeling that in London she was showing to strangers, exposing new and untried work to a more demanding audience than she knew at home, and this must have been a contributory factor. She was taken to Nuffield House, the private wing of Guy's Hospital, where she remained for five weeks. Dr Ralph Kauntze, her consultant physician, remembers her well as 'a splendid patient who showed great bravery. She was also most unusual in that she contemplated her future with great detachment.' Apart from Alastair and Lindsay she was not allowed any visitors. Doctor's orders forbade painting or even drawing; these she observed without complaint.
Privately Dr Kauntze thought that his patient could not expect to live for more than three years. Despite the fact that she never broached the subject with him, he had the impression that she knew this to be the case. Before she left hospital Redpath said that she was going to produce a painting for the doctor. A few months later Alastair delivered to Dr Kauntze's London home to his great delight a painting she had completed for him, which in typically generous manner was a much more important work than he might have anticipated.
The Scottish Gallery's 1960 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition was 'Gran Canaria Paintings by Anne Redpath'. The catalogue contained only twenty-one works, all oil paintings of the Canary Islands, which she had visited the previous February with Lindsay. Whereas the paintings from the Spanish and Corsican visits had in some cases gestated in her mind for as long as four years, the Canary paintings came to fruition more quickly. It was as though she knew that, following her recent illness, she no longer had the luxury of prolonged reflection. This was her first exhibition on a single theme. It was a considerable success, not least because she had painted the landscape of the islands in different moods, giving the exhibition variety and balance. In The Scotsman Sydney Goodsir Smith enthused that ...the best of them are the best Anne Redpaths I have seen'. He went on to say that these Canary Island landscapes were so good that she should not paint any more table-tops because they were not worthy of her talent.'
(P Bourne, Anne Redpath 1895-1965: Her Life and Work, Edinburgh, 1989, p.89).
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR
AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.
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Anne Redpath OBE RSA ARA LLD ARWS ROI RBA (British, 1895-1965)
Market - Gran Canaria
signed 'Anne Redpath' (lower right)
oil on board
55.8 x 91.5 cm. (22 x 36 in.)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to Dr Ralph Kauntze, thence by descent.
Literature
P Bourne, Anne Redpath 1895-1965: Her Life and Work, Edinburgh, 1989, p.89.
Anne Redpath is one of the most important Scottish artists of the twentieth century. Painted on a large-scale board, with a powerful and richly intense palette, the present work reflects the confidence of her later work. Pure vibrant colour has been used to convey the heat of the sun radiating off the buildings and parasols in this bustling marketplace. Gifted by Redpath to her doctor, it has remained in the same family for over 6 decades.
Patrick Bourne retells the story in his major Redpath biography:
'While she was in London for the opening of her second exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery in 1959, Anne Redpath suffered a second coronary thrombosis. She had never lost the feeling that in London she was showing to strangers, exposing new and untried work to a more demanding audience than she knew at home, and this must have been a contributory factor. She was taken to Nuffield House, the private wing of Guy's Hospital, where she remained for five weeks. Dr Ralph Kauntze, her consultant physician, remembers her well as 'a splendid patient who showed great bravery. She was also most unusual in that she contemplated her future with great detachment.' Apart from Alastair and Lindsay she was not allowed any visitors. Doctor's orders forbade painting or even drawing; these she observed without complaint.
Privately Dr Kauntze thought that his patient could not expect to live for more than three years. Despite the fact that she never broached the subject with him, he had the impression that she knew this to be the case. Before she left hospital Redpath said that she was going to produce a painting for the doctor. A few months later Alastair delivered to Dr Kauntze's London home to his great delight a painting she had completed for him, which in typically generous manner was a much more important work than he might have anticipated.
The Scottish Gallery's 1960 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition was 'Gran Canaria Paintings by Anne Redpath'. The catalogue contained only twenty-one works, all oil paintings of the Canary Islands, which she had visited the previous February with Lindsay. Whereas the paintings from the Spanish and Corsican visits had in some cases gestated in her mind for as long as four years, the Canary paintings came to fruition more quickly. It was as though she knew that, following her recent illness, she no longer had the luxury of prolonged reflection. This was her first exhibition on a single theme. It was a considerable success, not least because she had painted the landscape of the islands in different moods, giving the exhibition variety and balance. In The Scotsman Sydney Goodsir Smith enthused that ...the best of them are the best Anne Redpaths I have seen'. He went on to say that these Canary Island landscapes were so good that she should not paint any more table-tops because they were not worthy of her talent.'
(P Bourne, Anne Redpath 1895-1965: Her Life and Work, Edinburgh, 1989, p.89).
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR
AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.
For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
