[128529] Sheffield : Graves Art Gallery - Colour & Light - Kirkcudbright
Graves Art Gallery, Surrey Street, Sheffield.
Exhibition.
Colour and Light: Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection.
14 July - 9 December 2023.
Kirkcudbright.
Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935).
Oil on canvas, c1919.
In 1915, Peploe made the first of a number of visits to Kirkcudbright. His paintings of the picturesque Scottish town emphasise the geometry of its architecture and, in doing so, reveal Paul Cezanne's influence on Peploe's analysis of form, colour and tone.
Samuel John Peploe was the oldest of the Scottish Colourists. He lived almost all his life in Edinburgh, but he often visited France, studied briefly at the Académie Julian, and made his home in Paris, 1910–13. During this time in Paris he moved from an Impressionist style to one influenced by Cézanne and the Fauves, but later his work became less aggressively modern. In the 1920s he frequently visited the island of Iona, which—together with still-life—was his favourite subject.
[128529] Sheffield : Graves Art Gallery - Colour & Light - Kirkcudbright
Graves Art Gallery, Surrey Street, Sheffield.
Exhibition.
Colour and Light: Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection.
14 July - 9 December 2023.
Kirkcudbright.
Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935).
Oil on canvas, c1919.
In 1915, Peploe made the first of a number of visits to Kirkcudbright. His paintings of the picturesque Scottish town emphasise the geometry of its architecture and, in doing so, reveal Paul Cezanne's influence on Peploe's analysis of form, colour and tone.
Samuel John Peploe was the oldest of the Scottish Colourists. He lived almost all his life in Edinburgh, but he often visited France, studied briefly at the Académie Julian, and made his home in Paris, 1910–13. During this time in Paris he moved from an Impressionist style to one influenced by Cézanne and the Fauves, but later his work became less aggressively modern. In the 1920s he frequently visited the island of Iona, which—together with still-life—was his favourite subject.