ROBERT COLQUHOUN (1914-1962)

Lot 101
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ID 728649
Lot 101 | ROBERT COLQUHOUN (1914-1962)
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ROBERT COLQUHOUN (1914-1962)

Two Sisters

signed 'Colquhoun' (lower left)

coloured chalk and watercolour over monotype on paper

18 1⁄2 x 13 1⁄8 in. (47 x 33.3 cm.)

Executed in 1946-47.







Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner's father in the late 1940s, and by descent.





Literature

B. Denvir, 'Young British Painters', Graphis, Vol 2, No. 16, 1946, p. 501, illustrated.





Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Abstract, Cubist, Formalist, Sur-realist, April - May 1954, no. 341.

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Robert Colquhoun: An exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints from 1942-1958, March - May 1958, no. 115.

Liverpool, Arts Council of Great Britain, Walker Art Gallery, Robert Colquhoun: Paintings and Drawings, June - July 1958, no. 27: this exhibition travelled to Leicester, City Art Gallery, July - August; and Leeds, University Art Gallery, October - November.





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