Posy
About this artwork
Redpath made still life paintings throughout her career. She made countless paintings exploring the familiar objects in her own home, many of which she had collected during her travels abroad. In her later works, including this painting, she worked with oil paint in a thick, impasto style, using a palette knife to create sculptural textures. She also explored the contrast between warm, earthy tones set against bright whites. The objects in Redpath’s later still life paintings appear to float in space rather than sit on a surface; she said, ‘a painter is not interested in the laws of gravity.’
Updated before 2020
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artist:Anne Redpath (1895 - 1965) Scottish
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title:Posy
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:61.00 x 50.60 cm; Framed: 77.00 x 67.00 x 7.50 cm
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credit line:The Henry and Sula Walton collection: bequeathed 2012
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accession number:GMA 5329
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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...