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Lot 1012*

John Duncan Fergusson, RBA
(British, 1874-1961)
At the Milliner's, Paris 38 x 38 cm. (15 x 15 in.)

16 – 31 August 2011, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

Sold for £222,000 inc. premium

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John Duncan Fergusson, RBA (British, 1874-1961)

At the Milliner's, Paris
signed 'J.D. Fergusson 23.1.12' (on a letter attached to the backboard)
oil on board
38 x 38 cm. (15 x 15 in.)

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Margaret Morris, the artist's wife
Possibly with Thomas Agnew's, 1969 (according to note on label attached to backboard)
Private Collection, South Africa
Private Collection, UK
With Duncan R. Miller Fine Arts, London


EXHIBITED:
London, Duncan R. Miller Fine Arts, The Scottish Colourists, 1996, (ill. no. 1)

The attached letter is to a Mr Burgess, from Fergusson's studio at 83 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, acknowledging payment, and refers to his forthcoming show at the Stafford Gallery and Alexander Jamieson's recent exhibition.
This is a particularly fluid and succinct depiction of the dressmakers and millinery girls Fergusson considered the main attraction at the louche Cafe d'Harcourt in Paris. They wore the fashions they were working on, and the artist loved to sketch them after dinner.

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