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Still Life with Bottle, c.1912Signed lower rightOil on canvas, 51 x 51 cmsProvenance: Aitken Dott and Son (<strong>The</strong> <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>),Edinburgh in early 1920s; Private CollectionStill Life with Bottle is one of a small group of still lifes ofthis moment which use a deliberately contrived or abstractbackground. Like Still Life (p.30), in the collection of the <strong>Scottish</strong>National <strong>Gallery</strong> of Modern Art, which was referred to by theScotsman critic reviewing the SSA exhibition of 1912 as cubistic,this picture is a clear attempt to analyse the subject in terms ofgeometry. <strong>The</strong>se works may be termed experimental but at thesame time they are entirely successful in their own terms: <strong>Peploe</strong>was too subtle and gifted a painter to let a style dominate overthe painterly and colourist qualities he brings to bear on eachpicture.32
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