£220,000
** FRANCIS CAMPBELL BOILEAU CADELL RSA RSW (SCOTTISH 1883-1937)
DAHLIAS (c1929)
Oil on panel, signed lower left, signed, inscribed with title and 'Absorbent ground NEVER varnish' verso, 44 x 36cm (17.3 x 14.17")
Provenance: Dr Arthur H H Sinclair, 6 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh (now Bute House) c1930. Sinclair (1868-1962) had a fine art collection and was President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and the Hon Surgeon Oculist to the King in Scotland. His brother, Alexander Garden Sinclair ARSA, was an artist and member of the Society of Eight with FCB Cadell.
Thence by family descent.
Sale; Bonhams London, 9.6.99 (lot 23)
Private Collection Jersey
Private Collection Jersey
Note: FCB Cadell, the youngest of the Scottish Colourists, came into his own as an artist in Venice in 1910. The salon paintings he composed before the War were his most original contribution to date, featuring elegant 'fashion plate' women as motifs within his meticulously-arranged studio, but the style remained post-impressionist and his palette largely subdued. However the works from the 1920s, as with the present picture, perhaps reveal the true nature of the artist and the man. Particularly in the still life genre, we see his adherence to 'rigid line' and delight in pure colour. Many still lifes feature favoured studio props/motifs, such as the blue jug, small green Chinese bowl and silhouette, composed against the lilac wall he had first used c1915. Here we see his interest in pattern, geometry, simplified form and interior design, with his paintings reflecting the age of Art Deco and Jazz. The dahlia blooms themselves seem almost stylised, such is their visual impact.
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Presents in good condition. Very slight bow to panel. Minor abrasions/chips/rubbing to edges of panel. There appears to have been some sort of coating applied to the rear of the panel, rendering it slightly yellowed and shiny. However there is no apparent evidence that it has had any effect on painting itself.
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