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Joan Eardley RSA
(British, 1921-1963)
A Country Road 84 x 61 cm. (33 1/16 x 24 in.)

25 September 2014, 14:00 BST
Edinburgh

£30,000 - £50,000

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Joan Eardley RSA (British, 1921-1963)

A Country Road
oil on canvas
84 x 61 cm. (33 1/16 x 24 in.)
Painted 1957

Footnotes

Provenance
Studio Inventory no. EE255
Apparently Anthony Rampton Esq (according to frame verso)
With Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh
Mr and Mrs Kenneth France, Glasgow
Thence by descent

Exhibited
Edinburgh, The Scottish Arts Council, n.d., cat.no.83
Aberdeen, Aberdeen Art Gallery Museum, Joan Eardley's Catterline, 1975, cat.no.19 (lent E.H France)

Joan Eardley first visited Catterline, near Stonehaven, in 1954. The large, summery canvas would have been painted on the spot and the pigment has been applied vigorously, and expressively, by brush and other means, with highlights of pure colour.

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