£3,000
Anne Redpath O.B.E., R.S.A., A.R.A., L.L.D., A.R.W.S., R.O.I., R.B.A. (SCOTTISH 1895-1965) - 'Girl With A Posy' - A 20th century charcoal, watercolour and acrylic portrait painting studied of a young girl. Signed to the lower right. To the verso a paper label from the Royal Scottish Society Of Paintings In Water-Colours,. Set within an oak frame. Painting measures approx. 49cm x 36cm. Frame measures approx. 74cm x 59cm.
Anne was born in Galashiels, the daughter of a tweed designer. In 1913 she studied at Edinburgh College of Art and in 1920 she married James Beattie Michie, an architect with the War Graves Commission in France, where they lived for the next fourteen years. During this time she did little painting, devoting herself to her family (she had three sons). In 1934 she returned to Scotland, living first in Hawick and then from 1949 in Edinburgh (she became gradually estranged from her husband, who worked in London). From the 1950s she attained a distinguished position in the Scottish art world and was awarded various honours. Her main subjects were landscapes and still-lifes, richly coloured and broadly handled in the tradition of the Scottish Colourists (in her later work there is sometimes a hint of Expressionism). She travelled a good deal, painting landscapes in, for example, Spain and Portugal. Redpath retains a position as one of the most highly regarded Scottish artists of the twentieth century and UK public collections hold one hundred and sixteen examples of her work.
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