[128543] Sheffield : Graves Art Gallery - Colour & Light - Green Sea Iona

Graves Art Gallery, Surrey Street, Sheffield.

Exhibition.

Colour and Light: Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection.

14 July - 9 December 2023.

 

Green Sea Iona.

Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935).

Oil on canvas, 1935.

 

In August 1918, Peploe wrote to Cadell - When the war is over I shall go to the Hebrides, recover some virtues I have lost....Oh, Iona. We must all go there together.

 

Cadell had first visited the island in 1912 and from 1920 he and Peploe visited virtually every summer. Peploe fixated on the north end of the island with its views to Mull, repeatedly capturing the visions of rare beauty produced by the forever changing weather and light.

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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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