Man and Pig

Details

ROBERT COLQUHOUN (1914-1962)
Man and Pig
signed 'R. Colquhoun' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 15 5/8 in. (59.6 x 39.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1953.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Nagel Auktionen, Stuttgart, 19 April 1997, lot 2862, where purchased by the previous owner.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 March 2010, lot 54, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

probably London, Redfern Gallery, French Paintings, Robert Colquhoun, Frances Richards, November - December 1954, no. 136.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The present work relates to the right hand side of Figures in a Farmyard by Robert Colquhoun, painted in 1953, which is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. There is a similar painting called Man and Pig in the collection of the Leicestershire Education Committee. Prunella Clough also owned an oil study of the pig on its own, simply called A Pig.

We are very grateful to Roger Bristow, Davy Brown and Robin Muir for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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