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Lot Essay
John Maclauchlan Milne is often referred to as the fifth Scottish Colourist and indeed his work and life have strong connections to his better known contemporaries. It is his French work, however, which makes the clear link with Samuel John Peploe, G.L. Hunter and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell. Maclauchlan Milne first visited the south of France in 1924, painting in locations - St Tropez, Cassis and St Paul de Vence - along the French Riviera. Maclauchlan Milne’s last continental trip is thought to have been in 1931 when he travelled through Tuscany to Provence.
St Tropez depicts the town in the foreground, looking North West to a view across the Golf de St Tropez. The work has stayed within private hands since it was acquired in the 1930s by Adelaide Mary Boyd, whose brother, the prominent Dundee art collector, William Boyd, offered great patronage to Maclauchlan Milne. Boyd had been Joint Managing Director of James Keiller & Son, manufacturing Marmalade. His art collection was significant, acquiring works by Peploe, Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Vuillard, Hunter, André Dunoyer de Segonzac and various Maclauchlan Milnes.
We are very grateful to Maurice Millar for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. Maurice Millar has recently published a biography on John Maclauchlan Milne, The Missing Colourist, which is available directly from his website, www.themissingcolourist.co.uk.
St Tropez depicts the town in the foreground, looking North West to a view across the Golf de St Tropez. The work has stayed within private hands since it was acquired in the 1930s by Adelaide Mary Boyd, whose brother, the prominent Dundee art collector, William Boyd, offered great patronage to Maclauchlan Milne. Boyd had been Joint Managing Director of James Keiller & Son, manufacturing Marmalade. His art collection was significant, acquiring works by Peploe, Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Vuillard, Hunter, André Dunoyer de Segonzac and various Maclauchlan Milnes.
We are very grateful to Maurice Millar for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. Maurice Millar has recently published a biography on John Maclauchlan Milne, The Missing Colourist, which is available directly from his website, www.themissingcolourist.co.uk.