“Luxembourg Gardens" by Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) (original) (raw)

Luxembourg Gardens

Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935)

1912

Oil on panel

35.5 x 28 cm. Framed: 51 x 44 cm

Fleming Collection, Id. 755

The Fleming's list describes this as one of the key works of Scottish artists drawn to the "brutish, semi‐abstract Fauve artists, addicted to primary colour, who believed that ‘honesty’ in art was rooted in their subjective response to external reality." Colourful, bright, even playful, it does seem to reflect the artist's response to the vitality of Parisian life.

• The painting in its frame
• "A Window into Scottish Art" at the Lightbox Gallery, Woking (23 April - 3 July 2022) [Review]

Photograph by Jacqueline Banerjee; photograph taken with permission, for the review of the exhibition linked below. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]