Anne Redpath OBE RSA ARA LLD ARWS ROI RBA (British, 1895-1965) Village of Cardo, Corsica
Anne Redpath OBE RSA ARA LLD ARWS ROI RBA (British, 1895-1965)
Village of Cardo, Corsica
signed 'Anne Redpath' (lower left)
oil on board
55.9 x 69cm (22 x 27 3/16in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
With Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd, London.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above in 1962 for £175), thence by descent.
Exhibited
London, Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd, New Paintings by Anne Redpath, March 2962.
Anne Redpath's exhibition in the Spring of 1962 at Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd in London was a huge success with everything selling soon after opening. The Manchester City Art Gallery sent a curator down to London to choose a painting, but had been disappointed to find everything had sold (P Bourne, Anne Redpath 1895-1965: Her Life and Work, Edinburgh, 1989, p.94).
Redpath commented in 1961: 'I think that I have always been interested in the textural quality of paint and painting and I think what I have got out of different countries like the Canary Islands, Corsica, Brittany and Portugal is something structural. So you see I haven't gone really away from depicting the object although it has a kind of abstraction...I would go to Corsica and paint houses on a hill-side. I would exaggerate the buttress quality of the building...instead of having it at right angles to the earth I would exaggerate the fact that the base of it was broader than the top of it, then therefore it looked as if it was growing out of the hill. So that while I am interested in the structural shapes of the picture, I am also interested in the structure of the objects themselves. And therefore they are really more convincing than they were before.' (as quoted by Philip Long, Anne Redpath 1895-1965, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, exh. cat., 1996, p. 26).
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Condition
Presents very well.Upon very close inspection, there are small areas of drying out cracks in the burgundy colour only. Inspection under UV light shows no evidence of re-touching or repair.Overall frame dimensions: 68 x 82 x 4.5 cm. Not glazed.
Anne Redpath OBE RSA ARA LLD ARWS ROI RBA (British, 1895-1965)
Village of Cardo, Corsica
signed 'Anne Redpath' (lower left)
oil on board
55.9 x 69cm (22 x 27 3/16in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
With Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd, London.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above in 1962 for £175), thence by descent.
Exhibited
London, Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd, New Paintings by Anne Redpath, March 2962.
Anne Redpath's exhibition in the Spring of 1962 at Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd in London was a huge success with everything selling soon after opening. The Manchester City Art Gallery sent a curator down to London to choose a painting, but had been disappointed to find everything had sold (P Bourne, Anne Redpath 1895-1965: Her Life and Work, Edinburgh, 1989, p.94).
Redpath commented in 1961: 'I think that I have always been interested in the textural quality of paint and painting and I think what I have got out of different countries like the Canary Islands, Corsica, Brittany and Portugal is something structural. So you see I haven't gone really away from depicting the object although it has a kind of abstraction...I would go to Corsica and paint houses on a hill-side. I would exaggerate the buttress quality of the building...instead of having it at right angles to the earth I would exaggerate the fact that the base of it was broader than the top of it, then therefore it looked as if it was growing out of the hill. So that while I am interested in the structural shapes of the picture, I am also interested in the structure of the objects themselves. And therefore they are really more convincing than they were before.' (as quoted by Philip Long, Anne Redpath 1895-1965, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, exh. cat., 1996, p. 26).
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
Condition
Presents very well.Upon very close inspection, there are small areas of drying out cracks in the burgundy colour only. Inspection under UV light shows no evidence of re-touching or repair.Overall frame dimensions: 68 x 82 x 4.5 cm. Not glazed.
