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Lot description
Robert Colquhoun, British 1914-1962 - La Jeune Morocaine, 1938; ink on paper, titled in pencil upper right 'La jeune morocaine', 35.8 x 24.8 cm (ARR) Provenance: with Mercury Gallery, London (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame); Brian Knox, purchased from the above on the 19th June 1983; Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, Paintings & Works on Paper, 10th March 2021, lot 153; Private Collection Note: Colquhoun was a central figure in the artistic world of war-time London, alongside his life-partner Robert MacBryde and their friends John Craxton and John Minton. Colquhoun and MacBryde (or 'The Two Roberts' as they were called) shot to fame under the patronage of Peter Watson, with important exhibitions of their work held at The Lefevre Gallery, The Whitechapel Gallery and numerous international mixed exhibitions. Most recently their work was the subject of a major retrospective at The National Galleries of Scotland in 2014-15. The artist's style was strongly influenced by his friend and neighbour in Soho during the 1940s, Polish artist Jankel Adler. Adler had travelled to Glasgow, where Colquhoun studied, as a refugee during the war and became a central figure of European modernism in Britain. In London, Colquhoun would develop from Adler a post-Cubist approach to the human form, breaking down features to create a heightened sense of expression.