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Robert Colquhoun, British 1914-1962 - Ryefield, c.1930-40; pencil and ink on paper, indistinctly inscribed and dated lower left 'Ryefield', 11.5 x 19.8 cm (mounted/unframed) (ARR) Provenance: Phillips, London, Modern British Art, 14th January 1992 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the mount); with Abbott and Holder Ltd., London (according to the label attached to the reverse of the mount); Private Collection, purchased from the above Note: according to the Abbott and Holder label, the work is from a sketchbook made between 1930-40. 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.