Wind

Details

David Forrester Wilson, R.S.A. (1873-1950)
Wind
signed 'D. Forrester Wilson' (lower left)
pencil and bodycolour on paper laid on board
18 ½ x 14 1/8 in. (47 x 35.9 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The son of a lithographer, David Forrester Wilson studied at Glasgow School of Art under the Belgian Symbolist Jean Delville (1867-1953). He became a professor at Glasgow, and exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute from 1895-1950. Forrester Wilson was favourite artist of Andy Warhol, and a large oil painting entitled The Wind was sold in Warhol's studio sale, Sotheby's, New York 29 April 1988, lot 2812.

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