£6,930
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture | 763
Auction: Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Signed, pastel
Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate
Acquired from the above by Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow from where acquired by the present owner in 2003
This work is one of a series of studies relating the paintings The Little Larchwood (I) and (II), both of c.1955 (see Chrisopher Andreae, Joan Eardley, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2013, p.145). It is likely to have been executed in situ whilst Eardley was visiting her friend, the photographer Audrye Walker, as Christopher Andreae has explained: ‘The ‘little larchwood’ paintings were done during one of Joan’s visits to Caverslee, the shepherd’s cottage in the Borders used as a country retreat by the Walker family.’ (op.cit.)