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Lot 1047*

William McTaggart, RSA RSW
(British, 1835-1910)
The Fruit Seller, Melville Gates 72.5 x 82.5 cm. (28 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.)

16 – 31 August 2011, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

£50,000 - £70,000

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William McTaggart, RSA RSW (British, 1835-1910)

The Fruit Seller, Melville Gates
signed and dated 'W McTaggart 1890' (lower right)
oil on canvas
72.5 x 82.5 cm. (28 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.)

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Miss McTaggart
With Aitken, Dott & Son, Edinburgh
R. Wemyss Honeyman
With Duncan R. Miller Fine Arts, London



EXHIBITED:
Edinburgh, Arts Council (Scottish Committee), William McTaggart, 1954, no. 14
London, The Fine Art Society, The Rustic Image, 1979, no. 42

LITERATURE:
J.L. Caw, William McTaggart, - A Biography and an Appreciation, James Maclehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1917, pp. 126, 151-2, 263

Caw observes (p.151) that McTaggart painted later summer subjects more rarely, but that this scene on the south of Edinburgh is "steeped in joyous calm", with blue sky and fluffy cloud above Lasswade Church which peeps through the lush canopy. Five children crowd round the fruit barrow, tempted by the delicacies.

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