Scottish Art
Scottish Art
Property from the Robertson Collection, Orkney
Stanley Cursiter, C.B.E, P.R.S.W., R.S.A.
Loch Stenness
Lot Closed
November 22, 01:05 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Robertson Collection, Orkney
Stanley Cursiter, C.B.E, P.R.S.W., R.S.A.
1887-1976
Loch Stenness
signed Stanley Cursiter and dated 1949 (lower right)
oil on canvas board
unframed: 29 by 39.5cm.; 11½ by 15½in.
framed: 47 by 54.5cm.; 18½ by 21½
Executed in 1949.
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, where acquired in 1983 by John Robertson and thence by family descent to the present owners
The present work depicts Loch Stenness, a large brackish loch on the mainland of Orkney. The area is known for its natural beauty and incredible density of Neolithic sites and monuments.
In this work Cursiter shows the landscape dusted with a layer of snow and bathed in a soft winter light. This feel for light and colour is reminiscent of Cursiter's fellow Scottish Artists F.C.B. Cadell and S.J. Peploe who painted on the Hebridean island of Iona.