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Lot 42

Samuel John Peploe RSA
(British, 1871-1935)
Luxembourg Gardens, Paris

9 October 2024, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

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Samuel John Peploe RSA (British, 1871-1935)

Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
signed 'Peploe' (verso)
oil on board
34.8 x 26.8cm (13 11/16 x 10 9/16in).

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Provenance
A gift from J.W. Blyth.
Anon. sale, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 11 December 2003, lot 115.
With Richard Green, London, June 2004.
Private Collection, UK.

The Luxembourg Gardens and its habitués provided popular subjects for both Peploe and Fergusson who lived nearby. This view is painted on a compact scale, on a board which was easy to transport and to use whilst working en plein air. This approach allowed for an immediacy and freshness of response to subject matter. Peploe's oil sketches from about 1910, the year he moved to Paris, are painted with an unusual freedom. He had been studying the works of Vincent van Gogh and Othon Friesz, both of whom he knew in Paris. Influences also came from other artists' brushwork, such as the raw expressionism of the Fauves and of their use of a vivid palette from mainly unmixed colours. Here he uses the oil paint boldly in the modern French style.

This painting was once in the collection of John Blyth of Kirkcaldy, who ran a linen mill there and was one of Peploe's greatest supporters. He contributed an introduction to The Scottish Gallery's memorial exhibition catalogue and by the end of his life he owned eighty-five works. Many were donated to Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery.

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