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4 French Fisherman, 1951<br />
pastel, 12 x 9 cms<br />
illustrated<br />
Joan Eardley, RSA by Cordelia Oliver, Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd,<br />
1988, p43<br />
Exhibited<br />
Joan Eardley, <strong>Scottish</strong> National <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> Modern Art, Edinburgh, March 1985<br />
provenance<br />
<strong>The</strong> artist’s studio inventory (ED 299); Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow<br />
In 1951, Joan Eardley and Dorothy Steel spent several months in France, at Cologne du Gers.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> pace <strong>of</strong> life in <strong>the</strong> French village was slow, indeed, but ‘<strong>the</strong>re are many nice things here and<br />
one can become absorbed into <strong>the</strong> slow pace <strong>of</strong> things very easily – <strong>the</strong> slow moving bullocks and<br />
<strong>the</strong> men who move as slowly, and walk like <strong>the</strong>m I amble along like a bullock myself – and <strong>the</strong>n I<br />
suddenly think <strong>of</strong> my tenements and my wee boys’.”<br />
Joan Eardley, RSA by Cordelia Oliver, Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd,<br />
1988, p43<br />
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