Bananas and Violas

Details

David McClure, R.S.A., R.S.W. (1926-1998)
Bananas and Violas
signed and dated 'D. McClure/57' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'BANANAS AND VIOLAS/(1957)/DAVID MCCLURE RSA, RSW/16 STRAWBERRY BANK DUNDEE' (on the backboard)
oil on canvas
14 x 17 in. (35.5 x 43.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Thackeray Gallery, London, April 1978.
with Fine Art Society, where purchased by the Fleming Collection, January 1992.

Exhibited

London, Haddington House, David McClure 1957-1977, 1978 (not traced).

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Lot Essay

David McClure was born in Lochwinnoch. He studied and later taught at the Edinburgh College of Art and at Dundee. A travelling scholarship to Spain and Italy which he had won at the E.C.A. in 1952-53 inspired his early landscapes, however from the 1960s he began to concentrate on painting interiors and particularly still lifes and nudes. He was a vibrant colourist, showing the influence of the French Fauves in particular in the body of his later work, as well as his close association with the painter, Anne Redpath.

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