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Lot Essay
In the mid-1900s Fergusson painted oil landscape sketches of Dieppe and Etaples in France and also Scottish townscapes and landscapes. The present work, although unclear as to its location, is at once decorative but also captures the essence of landscape. Fergusson was at this point beginning to move towards what would be a more vigorous way of working and this sketch freely uses a palette typical of 1905-06, with saturated dark blues relieved by green, dusky mauve and the pink of the house exterior.
In its Whistlerian colour it is reminiscent of Fergusson's Dieppe, 14 July 1905: Night (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh)
Fergusson's personal preference for framing his paintings was in white-painted wood, similar to that in which the present work is framed.
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In its Whistlerian colour it is reminiscent of Fergusson's Dieppe, 14 July 1905: Night (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh)
Fergusson's personal preference for framing his paintings was in white-painted wood, similar to that in which the present work is framed.
E.C.