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still life
1962
Oil on canvas.
15¾ x 29¾in. (40.5 x 76.5cm.)
Monogrammed and dated ’62.
Provenance
Sotheby’s, studio sale, 24 April 1985, lot 557, ill. b/w (photo reversed), as oil on paper.
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Exhibited
London, RWS Galleries ca. 1963, no. 89.
Penzance, Newlyn Gallery, 1975, no. 110.
This is one of the most elaborate of all Colquhoun’s still lifes. Generally, her compositions feature a
small numbers of elements, generally a jug of flowers or no more than one or two pieces of fruit. The
only still lifes that can compare with it are one or two from the early 1930s.
