Live Auction 21949Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale
ROBERT COLQUHOUN (1914-1962)
Lot 226

ROBERT COLQUHOUN (1914-1962)

Man and Pig

Closed22 March 2023

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GBP 50,400

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ROBERT COLQUHOUN (1914-1962)
Man and Pig
signed 'R. Colquhoun' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 15 5/8 in. (59.6 x 39.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1953.

Anonymous sale; Nagel Auktionen, Stuttgart, 19 April 1997, lot 2862, where purchased by the previous owner.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 March 2010, lot 54, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present work relates to the right hand side of Figures in a Farmyard by Robert Colquhoun, painted in 1953, which is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. There is a similar painting called Man and Pig in the collection of the Leicestershire Education Committee. Prunella Clough also owned an oil study of the pig on its own, simply called A Pig.

We are very grateful to Roger Bristow, Davy Brown and Robin Muir for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.