CRANE FLOWERS, 1935
Oil on canvas. 17½ x 14in. (44.4 x 35.5cm.)
Signed and dated ’35.
Provenance
With the Leva Gallery in 1973.
With Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.
Renaud, Paris, 10th May 1985, lot number unknown, dimensions given as 16 x 12in. (40 x 30cm.).
Christie's, London, 9th June 1989, lot 358. Illustrated in colour in the catalogue.
Christie’s, South Kensington, 3rd December 2003, lot 710.
Exhibited
London, Fine Art Society, 1936, No. 2,
Penzance, The Orion Gallery, 1973, No. 1.
Literature
Ratcliffe (2007) illus. col. pl. 45.
The flowers and foliage dominate the picture, like a heavily cropped photograph, and lie close to the picture plane. The support is a coarse-woven canvas. These features are typical of many of Colquhoun's flower paintings of the period.
Reference
Ratcliffe, E. Ithell Colquhoun. Mandrake, Oxford. 2007.