Robert Colquhoun 1914-1962
Landscape with Goat, early 1950s circa
oil on canvas, with a painting of a still life to the reverse
42.5 x 49 cm
16 3/4 x 19 1/4 in
16 3/4 x 19 1/4 in
signed
In Landscape with Goat, landscape, animal form and surrealism merge into a single pictorial language. The composition is built from interlocking organic forms, with the landscape appearing to fold around...
In Landscape with Goat, landscape, animal form and surrealism merge into a single pictorial language. The composition is built from interlocking organic forms, with the landscape appearing to fold around the goat. The palette of ochres, greens and chalky whites emphasised the material weight of the forms, reinforcing the sense of a landscape built rather than observed. By the 1950s, Colquhoun was a well established artist deeply engaged with Surrealism and mythology and psychology and exhibiting regularly at Lefevre Gallery, London where he was considered one of the most interesting British painters of his generation.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1983, lot 229Sandra Lummis Fine Art, London, from whom acquired by Bernard Kelly
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