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* ROBERT COLQUHOUN (SCOTTISH 1914 - 1962), MIMOSA STUDY
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* ROBERT COLQUHOUN (SCOTTISH 1914 - 1962), MIMOSA STUDY
image size 26cm x 19cm, overall size 45cm x 36cm
watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1934
mounted, framed and under glass
image size 26cm x 19cm, overall size 45cm x 36cm
Note: Born Kilmarnock, 20 Dec. 1914; died London, 20 Sept. 1962). British painter, graphic artist, and designer. In 1933–8 he studied at Glasgow School of Art, where he became the inseparable companion of his fellow student Robert MacBryde (b Maybole, Ayrshire, 5 Dec. 1913; d Dublin, 6 May 1966). They settled in London in 1941. During the war Colquhoun was an ambulance driver in the Civil Defence Corps by day and painted by night (MacBryde was exempt from military service because of tuberculosis). Within a few years the studio of the Roberts (as they were generally known) at 77 Bedford Gardens, Campden Hill, had become a centre for a group of young artists and writers, among them Keith Vaughan. Following a successful one-man show in 1943 Colquhoun developed a reputation as one of the outstanding British painters of his generation; his characteristic angular figure compositions owed something to Cubism, but had an expressive life of their own.
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* ROBERT COLQUHOUN (SCOTTISH 1914 - 1962), MIMOSA STUDY
image size 26cm x 19cm, overall size 45cm x 36cm
watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1934
mounted, framed and under glass
image size 26cm x 19cm, overall size 45cm x 36cm
Note: Born Kilmarnock, 20 Dec. 1914; died London, 20 Sept. 1962). British painter, graphic artist, and designer. In 1933–8 he studied at Glasgow School of Art, where he became the inseparable companion of his fellow student Robert MacBryde (b Maybole, Ayrshire, 5 Dec. 1913; d Dublin, 6 May 1966). They settled in London in 1941. During the war Colquhoun was an ambulance driver in the Civil Defence Corps by day and painted by night (MacBryde was exempt from military service because of tuberculosis). Within a few years the studio of the Roberts (as they were generally known) at 77 Bedford Gardens, Campden Hill, had become a centre for a group of young artists and writers, among them Keith Vaughan. Following a successful one-man show in 1943 Colquhoun developed a reputation as one of the outstanding British painters of his generation; his characteristic angular figure compositions owed something to Cubism, but had an expressive life of their own.
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