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William Crosbie RSA RGI(British, 1915-1999)Universal Female 127 x 102 cm. (50 x 40 1/4 in.)
25 September 2014, 14:00 BST
EdinburghSold for £7,500 inc. premium
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William Crosbie RSA RGI (British, 1915-1999)
Universal Female
signed and dated 'Crosbie 47' (lower left); further signed, inscribed and titled 'Crosbie 12 Ruskin Lane Glasgow W.2. Universal Female' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
127 x 102 cm. (50 x 40 1/4 in.)
signed and dated 'Crosbie 47' (lower left); further signed, inscribed and titled 'Crosbie 12 Ruskin Lane Glasgow W.2. Universal Female' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
127 x 102 cm. (50 x 40 1/4 in.)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Ewan Mundy Fine Art, 1990, where purchased by the present owner
Exhibited
Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council, New Paintings in Glasgow 1940-46, 1968, cat.no.24 (where lent by the artist)
Edinburgh, Aitken Dott & Son, William Crosbie Retrospective, 1980
Perth, Museum and Art Gallery, 1990
Crosbie is one of few Scottish artists whose work betrays the influence of Surrealism, which he would have absorbed when studying in Paris under Leger and Maillol.
























