Bird's-eye View, Cassis

Details

Samuel John Peploe, R.S.A. (1871-1935)
Bird's-eye View, Cassis
signed 'Peploe' (lower right), signed again and inscribed 'Landscape - £75 - S J Peploe' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1930.

Provenance

John Geoghegan.
Sir Alexander Gibson.
with Aitken Dott, Edinburgh.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, S.J. Peploe, London, Duncan R. Miller Fine Art, 1993, no. 35, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, The Scottish Colourists, London, Duncan R. Miller Fine Art, 1996, no. 5, illustrated.
G. Peploe, S. J. Peploe, Edinburgh, 2000, p. 156, no. 119, illustrated.

Exhibited

Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, S.J. Peploe Memorial Exhibition, February 1937, no. 78.
Edinburgh, The Scottish Gallery, S.J. Peploe, August - September 1947, no. 30.
London, Arts Council, Scottish Committee, S.J. Peploe Touring Exhibition, 1953, no. 15.
London, Duncan R. Miller Fine Art, S.J. Peploe, November 1993, no. 35.
London, Duncan R. Miller Fine Art, The Scottish Colourists, November 1996, no. 5.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Peploe returned to Cassis in early 1930 and, like the earlier paintings of Cassis (see lot 175), he once again looked to the white houses and streets for inspiration. Peploe conveys the heat and dust by using dry paint, as Guy Peploe describes, 'He has had to work harder to reach his vantage-point for Bird's-eye View, Cassis where a noon sun's rays preside over a parched, mineral landscape, the red roofs of the villas the only colour not bleached to pale shades' (G. Peploe, op. cit., pp. 76-7).

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