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George Houston RSA RSW 1869-1947

1 Ionasigned, titled and dated 1901oil on canvas · 28 x 36 inches

provenance: T & R Annan and Sons Ltd., Glasgow

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Sir William Oliphant Hutchison PRSA 1889-1970

2 Seascape, Canary Islandsoil on canvas laid on board · 9 x 12 inches

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Cecile Walton 1891-1956

3 Cover for Lycophron and Lyricssigned and inscribed with title ‘Lycrophon [sic] and Lyrics by Lilian M. Worthington’ in pencilpencil, pen and ink · 12 ½ x 18 ½ inches

provenance: private collection, England

note: Lycophron of Chalcis was a Greek poet and scholar (flourished 3rd century BC).

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4 The Chopin Waltzsigned; titled in pencilpencil, pen and ink · 8 ½ x 7 inches



5 Maremmatitled in pencil and initialled CWpencil, pen and ink · 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches


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Albert Gordon Thomas RSW 1893-1970

6 The Magic o’ the Islessignedoil on board · 40 x 50 inches

exhibited: Royal Glasgow Institute, 1935, no.198

note: The Storr at Trotternish on the Isle of Skye is a remarkable rock formation of spiky pinnacles, the remnants of ancient landslips. The Old Man and other peaks tower above the viewer.

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Ben Nicholson OM 1894-1982

7 Still Life, Torre del Grillo, Rome, 1955signed, titled and dated Oct 55 versopencil and thin wash on Bristol board · 14 ½ x 18 ½ inches

note: Nicholson stayed at Torre del Grillo, Piazza del Grillo, Rome on two occasions in 1954 and 1955 as the guest of Jenny Nicholson, the eldest child of Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson.

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Anne Redpath OBE ARA RSA 1895-1965

8 Wayside cemetery, Corsicasigned; titled on label versooil on board · 20 x 30 inches

provenance: Britton Pears Estate and Sir Peter Pears CBE , and by descent

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Thomas Symington Halliday MBE FRSA 1902-1998

9 Kneeling figuresignedwood and bronze paint · 13 inches height

Talbert McLean 1906-1992

10 Abstraction in Green and Red, c.1950oil on canvas · 20 x 24 inches

provenance: the artist’s estate

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Hannah Frank 1908-2008

1 1 Seated Figuresigned H Levy; signed and titled in pen to baseclay · 9 ¾ x 4 x 6 ½ inches

note: For the first 22 years of her career following her studies at Glasgow School of Art, Hannah Frank produced art nouveau styled monochromatic drawings. From 1952 she focussed on the production of sculpture following her enrolment in sculpture classes at the Glasgow School of Art. Many of these sculptures focus on the form of women. Frank’s style was influenced by teachers and contemporaries such as Benno Schotz and Henry Moore, though the long limbs and refined shaping of her figures render them distinct.

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George Nelson 1908-1986

12 ‘Cup Cake’ chest of drawerscombed oak with walnut inlay · 18 ½ x 40 x 40 inches

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham HRSA 1912-2004

13 St Andrews Bay Series (Rain), no.30signed and dated 1981 to mount; signed, titled and dated on old backboard versomixed media on board · 7 ¾ x 10 ½ inches

provenance: private collection, Edinburgh; Barns-Graham catalogue number 40/81/L

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Robert MacBryde 1913-1966

14 Still Life with Bones, c.1959signed, inscribed with title on stretcher versooil on canvas · 18 x 20 inches

provenance: with Museum Street Gallery, London, where purchased by Oliver Luard, circa 1961-62

Borge Mogensen 1914-1972

15 Card tableSoborg Mobler, Denmarkteak and beech · 24 x 26 (38 extended) x 19 inches

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Peter Lanyon 1918-1964

16 Pink Isigned versooil and plaster on board · 17 ½ x 7 ½ inches

provenance: by descent to Sheila Lanyon, the artist’s wife; with Gimpel Fils, London 1975exhibited: Gimpel Fils, ‘Peter Lanyon, 1918-1964: Reliefs, Constructions and Related Paintings’, London, May-June 1975, no.12

note: Peter Lanyon was born in St Ives and experienced its development as an artists’ town first hand. The work that he produced was informed by his deeply rooted sense of connection to the Cornish landscape. Of the St Ives artists in the 1950s, Lanyon was one of the most international, having solo shows in New York in 1957 and 1969. He absorbed the developments of American Abstract Expressionsim, and this was reinforced by seeing the first British exhibition of Jackson Pollock’s work held at the Whitechapel in 1958.

With its dribbled paint and abstract gestural quality,‘Pink I’ is evidently a response to Pollock’s painting, while also expressed in Lanyon’s personal idiom. He had Pink I hung in his studio with other similar works from 1959 until his death.

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Robert Henderson Blyth RSA RSW 1919-1970

17 Spanish Camerawoman, 1958signed in plate; from the edition of 70lithograph · 10 ¼ x 11 inches

note: An oil from 1955 in Aberdeen Art Gallery depicts a similar wheeled cart with folding panels to display the photographer’s work.


18 Still Life, 1956signed; titled on label verso; dated 1956 on plaquepen, ink and wash · 10 ¼ x 18 ¾ inches


19 A Cowhandsigned ink and wash · 9 ¼ x 10 ¼ inches

provenance: Macaulay Gallery, Stenton; The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

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20 The Crabsigned ink and wash · 9 ½ x 12 ¼ inches

provenance: collection of William Crocket, Aberdeenexhibited: Royal Scottish Academy, 1953, no.571; Aitken Dott, ‘Festival Exhibition’, 1955; Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, ‘R. Henderson Blyth Memorial Exhibition’, 1972; Scottish Gallery, ‘Summer Exhibition’, 1983.

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi CBE RA 1924-2005

21 Untitled (from Homage to Picasso), 1973signed and numbered 52/90 in pencillithograph · 30 ¼ x 22 inches

note: The portfolio ‘Homage to Picasso’, printed in 1973 by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin and Pantheon Press, Rome, comprised prints by famed artists and printmakers in an edition of 90. Alongside Paolozzi, 69 artists contributed to the portfolio, including Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Miro, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol.

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Barbara Balmer RSA RSW 1929-2017

22 Black Parrot Tulipssigned and dated June 1979pencil and watercolour · 16 ½ x 21 inches

exhibited: The Scottish Gallery, ‘Recent Paintings’, Edinburgh, June-July 1980

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John Houston OBE RSA 1930-2008

23 Sunset over the sea, Harrissigned; signed, titled and dated 1975 on stretcher versooil on canvas · 30 x 40 inches

provenance: Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, 1998

note: In 1969 Houston was made artist in residence at the Prairie School, Wisconsin. The vast landscapes of Wisconsin proved inspirational and the influence of the expansive American scenery is clearly evident in the pictures made immediately following his return to Scotland.

Houston travelled to Harris throughout his lifetime and his first trip was in 1974.

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Sir Terence Conran CH FCSD b.1931

24 Small storage cabinet, designed 1952painted square sectioned steel, african walnut and painted Masonite doors · 45 x 48 x 10 inches

exhibited: The Design Museum, Terence Conran, ‘The Way We Live Now’, London, 2011literature: see House & Garden, ‘Live Better for Less’, May 1953, for an identical cabinet in a different colour combination; see also House & Garden, February 1953, p.39, for a slightly different version

note: This rare cabinet dates from the earliest period of Terence Conran’s independent design career, when he ran a basement workshop and showrooms underneath the headquarters of the Ballet Rambert in Notting Hill Gate. Conran had previously shared a railway arch in Bethnal Green as a workshop with his friend and former teacher, the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi. It was while there that Conran initially taught Paolozzi the rudiments of welding. This particular cabinet, designed and made by Conran himself, had an extremely limited production in 1952-3.

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Sir Peter Blake RA b.1932

25 The Fine Art Society Flag, 2012digital print on fabric · 108 x 120 inches

Bridget Riley CH CBE b.1931

26 Untitled (from the Rothko Memorial Portfolio), 1973signed, numbered and dated ‘73 in pencil to margin; number 21 from the edition of 75 + 15 APsscreenprint on Aquarelle Arches Satine · 32 x 30 ½ inches

note: In 1973 the Mark Rothko Memorial Fund produced this portfolio containing prints by thirteen artists, including Riley, Patrick Caulfield, Patrick Heron, and Henry Moore.

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John Boyd 1940-2001

27 High Tea at no.9signedoil on canvas | 40 x 48 inches

provenance: the artist’s estate

note: Boyd has depicted a childhood recollection of an afternoon with his family in the 1950s. The artist appears as a boy in the foreground, looking round from a table of family members in a traditional tenement, including his mother, father and brother.

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John Byrne RSA b.1940

28 Guitar Player, c.1971signedpencil · 15 ¾ x 13 inches

exhibited: Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh, 12-24 November 1973, cat. no.1


29 signed ‘Patrick’ on head and reverseoil · 43 x 15 ½ x 4 ¼ inches

provenance: private collection, London, since 1968exhibited : Portal Gallery, London, 1968

Hand painted guitar

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30 Zeidler & Zeidler, 1971signedwatercolour · 6 ¾ x 6 ¾ inches


31 Girl with Blackbird, c.1968-1969signed ‘Patrick’watercolour and gouache · 16 ½ x 19 inches

provenance: Portal Gallery, London, 1975

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Leon Morrocco RSA b.1942

32 The boys in the bathsigned and dated 1975pastel · 30 x 39 inches

provenance: the artist’s studio

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Graham Rich b.1945from a private collection

33 Four boats tacking against the ebbsigned, titled and dated 2005 versofound material and marine paint · 9 ½ x 9 inches

3 4 Four transit pointssigned, titled and dated 2007 versofound material and marine paint · 3 ½ x 11 ½ inches

36 Ghosting past Sandy Baysigned, title and dated 2005 on backboardfound material and marine paint · 6 x 11 ½ inches

37 Windward tacticssigned, titled and dated 2000 versofound material and marine paint · 7 x 7 ½ inches

35 Reaching past Dodman Pointsigned and dated 2004 verso, titled on backboardfound material and marine paint · 8 x 6 inches

38 Summer sunlight - Salcombesigned, titled inscribed and dated 2007 versofound material and marine paint · 11 x 14 ½ inches

39 Reaching into the Lightsigned, titled and dated 2006 on backboardfound material and marine paint · 5 x 12 inches

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Published by the Fine Art Society in Edinburgh for the exhibition

The Fine Art Societyin Edinburgh6 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6HZ +44 (0)131 557 4050www.fasedinburgh.com [email protected]

held at 6 Dundas Street, Edinburgh from 27 September to 9 November 2019

Catalogue © The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh

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Designed by The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh

Photography by John McKenzie

Printed in the UK by Ivanhoe Caledonian

Front cover: Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Untitled (from Homage to Picasso), (cat. no.21)

Inside front cover: John Byrne, Hand painted guitar, verso, (cat. no.29)

Inside back cover: Sir Peter Blake, Fine Art Society Flag, (cat. no.25)

Back cover: Talbert McLean, Abstraction in Green and Red, (cat. no.10)

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