Grieving Women

Details

Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962)
Grieving Women
signed 'Colquhoun' (lower right)
watercolour, coloured crayon and wax resist over a printed base
14¼ x 13¼ in. (36.2 x 33.6 cm.)
Executed in 1946.

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London.
with Fine Art Society, London, April 1978, where purchased by Davy Brown.
with Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow, February 1990.

Exhibited

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh Museums and Art Galleries, Robert Colquhoun, May - September 1981, no. 65.

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.

Sale room notice

Please note that this work is a monotype of the painting Grieving Women, 1944, which is being offered in the sale The Poetry of Crisis, The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant-Garde Art 1930-1951, 15 November 2006, lot 220.

Lot Essay

The present work is a study for the oil The Two Sisters (also called 'Grieving Women') from the Collection of the Late Sir Colin and Lady Anderson which was sold at Christie's 18 November 2005, lot 29 for the current world record price for the artist at auction of £102,000.

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