About this artwork
This still life was painted in Redpath's home in Hawick. It was described by a reporter in 1947: 'Immediately on entering her sitting room I felt as though I had stepped into one of her pictures. There was a tea tray standing on a little table as I had so often seen it, and, as on the painted tables, the cups did not match! On the mantelpiece were familiar pieces of crockery - a pink and white teapot, a petunia-coloured bowl, a Worcester jug with a bright band of blue around it.' Following the tradition of artists like Matisse and Vuillard, Redpath’s paintings are intimate portrayals of her own domestic setting. A second still life, titled Still Life with Teapot on Round Table is painted on the reverse side of the support.
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artist:Anne Redpath (1895 - 1965) Scottish
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title:Still Life with Milk Bottle
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date created:About 1945
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materials:Oil on hardboard
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measurements:75.00 x 75.00 cm; Framed: 89.50 x 90.20 x 8.50 cm / 16.00 kg
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credit line:Bequeathed by Dr R.A. Lillie 1977
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accession number:GMA 1963
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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...