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Life Study

This is the artist's College Diploma work, painted in his final year at Edinburgh College of Art and depicting an unidentified male life model

Object data

Date	1922
Accession	G.1991.065
Type	Painting Paint, oil
Materials	Support canvas Medium Paint, oil
Dimensions	Support 91.5cm x 61.2cm
Acquisition	Bequest Gillies, William George, Sir, CBE RA RSA PPRSW (1973)

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