


Lot 61
Samuel John Peploe RSA(British, 1871-1935)Still Life with Books and Statuette 39 x 49 cm. (15 3/8 x 19 5/16 in.)
25 September 2014, 14:00 BST
Edinburgh£25,000 - £35,000
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Samuel John Peploe RSA (British, 1871-1935)
Still Life with Books and Statuette
signed 'peploe' (vertical upper left)
oil on canvas
39 x 49 cm. (15 3/8 x 19 5/16 in.)
signed 'peploe' (vertical upper left)
oil on canvas
39 x 49 cm. (15 3/8 x 19 5/16 in.)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh
The use of a vertical signature was employed by Peploe in several pictures from the early 1900s, including The Lobster. Guy Peploe (S.J. Peploe, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2000) also refers to one or two, like this example, where the letters are drawn one beneath the other like an 'exotic hieroglyph' (p.67).