[128540] Sheffield : Graves Art Gallery - Colour & Light - Trees at Cassis

Graves Art Gallery, Surrey Street, Sheffield.

Exhibition.

Colour and Light: Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection.

14 July - 9 December 2023.

 

Trees at Cassis.

Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935).

Oil on board, 1913.

 

n 1913, Peploe made his first trip to the village of Cassis on the Cote d'Azur. During his stay he produced 39 finished oils plus a great number of drawings. One such painting was 'Trees at Cassis' which reflects the growing influence of Paul Cezanne on Peploe's work.

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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.

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