JOHN DUNCAN FERGUSSON, R.B.A. | Paris Plage, Bathing Huts

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60,000 - 80,000 GBP

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Description

John Duncan Fergusson, R.B.A.
Paris Plage, Bathing Huts
signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse: J.D. Fergusson/ Paris Plage./ 1903./ "bathing huts"
oil on panel
19 by 24 cm., 7½ by 9½in.

Provenance

T. & R. Annan & Sons Ltd., Glasgow, where purchased by Major Ion R. Harrison and thence by descent

Exhibited

Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, The Thistle Foundation, Pictures from a Private Collection, 1951, no.179;
Glasgow, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Exhibition of Scottish Painting, 1961, no.174

Catalogue Note

'I immediately found there, what the French call an ‘Ambience’ – an atmosphere which was not only agreeable and suitable to work in, but in which it was impossible not to work!'

John Duncan Fergusson

quoted by M. Morris, The Art of J.D. Fergusson, 1974, p.50