Still life with plaster cast and books

Details

Samuel John Peploe, R.S.A. (1871-1935)
Still life with plaster cast and books
signed 'Peploe' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 16 in. (45.7 x 40.7 cm.)

Provenance

John Beaumont Priestman, by whom purchased from Aitken Dott, Edinburgh, 1926, and by descent.

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Sale room notice

Please note the additional provenance for this lot:

John Beaumont Priestman, by whom purchased from Aitken Dott, Edinburgh, 1926, and by descent until 1984.

Lot Essay

A related painting, 'Still Life with Plaster Cast', circa 1931, is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. Peploe created a similar composition to that of the present lot, with the plaster cast as the central focus of each painting.

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