Menton
About this artwork
In 1947 Redpath travelled to Menton on the French Riviera, where she made numerous sketches and oil studies. Once back in Scotland, the studies she made during her holiday in Menton were used to create numerous paintings including this one and ‘Window in Menton’ (1948), which featured her daughter in law Eileen in the foreground. Menton was only 20 miles from Cap Ferrat, where Redpath had lived with her family in the 1920s before returning to Scotland in 1934 and this atmospheric painting is suggestive of the artist’s familiarity with the place.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Anne Redpath (1895 - 1965) Scottish
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title:Menton
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Oil on board
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measurements:49.00 x 66.00 cm; Framed: 67.00 x 80.00 cm
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credit line:The Henry and Sula Walton collection: bequeathed 2012
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accession number:GMA 5328
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Anne Redpath
Anne Redpath
Redpath was born in Galashiels and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. In 1920 she married and moved to France, devoting much of the next fourteen years to her family and doing little painting. In the mid-1930s she returned to Scotland, settling in Hawick in the Borders. Redpath admired the French...
