Download PDF: SJ Peploe - The Scottish Gallery

Interior with Chair, Fan and Still life, c.1908Oil on canvas, 25.4 x 30.4 cmsProvenance: Willy Peploe, thence by descentThis small interior belongs in Peploe’s white period when heoccupied the Raeburn Studio in York Place, Edinburgh. It was herehe painted several dramatic single figure paintings using PeggyMacrae as his model, such as Girl in White and By Firelight (p.20).The palette is severely limited but contains a brilliant, scarletflash of fabric and other subtle notes. The painting is remarkablyfree and made alla prima, without revisions to gain an exquisitebalance of form and fluidity and represents the limit of how farthe artist will travel in this direction.24