
Leo Webster
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Provenance
With The Lefevre Gallery, London.
Collection of George Wright Hall.
Collection of R. Forbes-Hutchison.
With Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh.
Private collection, UK; thence by descent.
Exhibited,
Edinburgh, Aitken Dott & Son, Recent Acquisitions, April-May 1977, cat. no. 95.
In landscape painting, Peploe was a more instinctive and expressive artist. Unlike his highly controlled and considered still lifes designed to reach perfection in composition; with landscapes, he was pragmatic and reactive to the ever changing conditions experienced when painting en plein air in Scotland. This pragmatism is indicated in a letter of 1923:
"We had miserable weather in Iona this year – worst in living memory – gales and rain the whole time... But that kind of weather suits Iona: the rocks and distant shores seen through falling rain, veil behind veil, take on an elusive quality, and when the light shines through one has visions of rare beauty. I think I prefer it these days to your blue skies and clear distances." (Peploe to William McDonald in a letter dated November 1923).
(Guy Peploe, S.J. Peploe, London, 2012, p. 152)