§ ANNE REDPATH O.B.E., R.S.A., A.R.A., L.L.D., A.R.W.S., R.O.I., R.B.A. (SCOTTISH 1895-1965) WHITE Signed, oil on board

(51cm x 61cm (20in x 24in))

Provenance: Duncan Miller Fine Arts, London

In 1961, the Scottish poet George Bruce visited Redpath at her home in Edinburgh in order to interview her for the BBC. He recalled: ‘When filming began, one of her milking stools, which she had just painted as a gift to one of her grandchildren, stood, by chance or intention, beside a cyclamen in a pot – the one a simple artefact made to last, brightly coloured with a flowing design painted by herself, the other a pale delicate flowering cyclamen, the white flowers changing to deepening tones at their centres. Both and all were Anne Redpath.’ (George Bruce, Modern Scottish Painters: Anne Redpath, Edinburgh University Press, 1974, p. 61.). The present painting is related to another of the same title, dated to 1962, which was purchased by Aberdeen Art Gallery in 1964 (accession number ABDAG003027).