F C B Cadell
Lady in Black and Gold, 1926
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 in / 76 x 63.5 cm
This work illustrates Cadell's familiar sitter, Miss Bertia Don Wauchope with striking glamour and sophistication - a style seen often in his 1920s work. Alongside his model, roses in a...
This work illustrates Cadell's familiar sitter, Miss Bertia Don Wauchope with striking glamour and sophistication - a style seen often in his 1920s work. Alongside his model, roses in a vase and the blue and gold chair that Wauchope sits on are recognisable motifs which can be spotted in Cadell's wider work from this period.
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by P M Campbell, 29 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh for £70, 1926.
Private collection, Scotland.
Sotheby’s, Hopetoun House, Scotland, 25 April, 1989, lot 252.
Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh (purchased from above).
Private collection, London.
Portland Gallery, London.
Private Collection, London.
Exhibitions
Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, Cadell to Eardley - Fifty Years of Scottish Painting, 1989.
Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, 21 Years of Bourne Fine Art, 2001, on loan.
Portland Gallery, London, The Scottish Colourists, 2002.
Portland Gallery, London, F.C.B. Cadell, 2011, on loan.
Literature
J. Halsby and P. Harris, Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600-Present, Edinburgh, 1990, p. 28.
The Studio, Vol. LXXXVI, 1923, p. 287.T. Hewlett and D. MacMillan, FCB Cadell: The life and works of a Scottish Colourist, London, 2011, p. 110, fig. 110, illustrated.
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