Still Life with Portrait Postcards
Artist: Gillies, William George, Sir, CBE RA RSA PPRSW · 1898-1973
the work was produced at 162 Willowbrae Road, Edinburgh to which the artist moved in 1929 with his mother and two sisters Janet and Emma.
This is one of the few Gillies' still lives for which preparatory sketches survive.
There is a tonal harmony across the composition, the orange cloth on th emantlepiece being picked up in one of the postcards and again in the coffee pot at back left, for example, and the shape of the flowers in the vase on the table are echoed in elements of the postcards and in the handle of the pot.
Already Gillies is distorting the structure, with the table top tilted almost to the vertical, which would become more pronounced in his still lives of the 1950s.
© Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
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Date c.1934 Accession G.1991.889 Materials Support canvas Dimensions Support
82.5cm x 66.1cmMedium Paint, oil -
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