CORNER, 1937
Oil on board. 28 x 15½in. (71 x 39.4cm.)
Signed and dated Colquhoun/37 lower right. Inscribed on the reverse with the title.
Provenance
Sotheby’s studio sale, London, 24th April 1985, lot 496. Illustrated in b/w in the catalogue.
Exhibited
London, Mayor Gallery, 1939, No. 9.
London, Peter Jones Gallery, 1939.
Harrogate, Harrogate Art Gallery, 1941, No. 25.
London, Gallery Edward Harvane, 1972.
London, Leva Gallery, 1974, (as oil on panel), No. 7.
London, Parkin Gallery, 1977, No. 16.
Mayor Gallery 1988, No. 36. Illustrated in b/w in the catalogue.
According to the Parkin Gallery catalogue, the work was exhibited at the Hamet Gallery, 1971 and the Penzance retrospective, 1976. If so, it was ex catalogue on each occasion.
This work, together with Rails (1936), suggest a brief flirtation with cubism, given the transparent overlapping planes, spatial ambiguities and, in the case of Corner, a false wood-grain effect.