F C B Cadell
Lady in Black and Gold, 1926
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 in
76 x 63.5 cm
76 x 63.5 cm
POA
Drawn to rich colour, lavish interiors and glamorous women, FCB Cadell created a series of paintings which captured the epitome of luxury in the 1920s. Painted at the artist's stylish...
Drawn to rich colour, lavish interiors and glamorous women, FCB Cadell created a series of paintings which captured the epitome of luxury in the 1920s. Painted at the artist's stylish Edinburgh studio Miss Bertina Don Wauchope, a frequent sitter, is captured here with striking elegance and allure. She sits upon Cadell's favoured mauve and gold chair, while a vase of roses arranged behind relates to the artist's famed still life works.
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.