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Lot Essay
When Colquhoun was offered a travelling scholarship by the Glasgow School of Art in 1938, and MacBryde was also able to travel with him, he decided with MacBryde to present a pair of portraits of themselves to W.O. Hutchinson (then Director of Glasgow School of Art) as a gesture of their appreciation. Although they were intended to be self portraits, they decided instead to present portraits of each other. The pair of portraits given to W.O. Hutchinson are now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (see also lots 251 and 252).
Anthony Cronin commented on MacBryde's physical appearance, 'He had a round head with the prominent bushy eyebrows and the mobile rubber features of the clown, or perhaps of some sophisticated, disillusioned, rather tired French cabaret artist' (see Dead as Doornails: A Chronicle of Life, Dublin, 1976, p. 131).
Anthony Cronin commented on MacBryde's physical appearance, 'He had a round head with the prominent bushy eyebrows and the mobile rubber features of the clown, or perhaps of some sophisticated, disillusioned, rather tired French cabaret artist' (see Dead as Doornails: A Chronicle of Life, Dublin, 1976, p. 131).