Erbalunga, Corsica
About this artwork
This is one of several paintings Redpath completed after travelling in Corsica in 1955. It shows her increasing use of the palette knife and layering of bright colours in an expressive response to the character of the town. While in Corsica her palette expanded to include the violets and scarlets she found on the island’s hillsides. It also demonstrates her developing interest in the forces of nature and how they affected the landscape and its inhabitants. She contrasts the wind-swept trees on the battered shoreline with the strength and permanence suggested by the houses. Redpath commented that she "would exaggerate the buttress quality of the building… then therefore it looked as if it was growing out of the hill".
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artist:Anne Redpath (1895 - 1965) Scottish
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title:Erbalunga, Corsica
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date created:About 1955
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materials:Oil on hardboard
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measurements:Framed: 80.50 x 95.70 x 6 cm
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credit line:Scott Hay Collection: presented 1967
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accession number:GMA 1059
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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...