
Robert Colquhoun
Two Irish People, 1947
oil on canvas
55.9 x 41.4 cm; 22 x 16 ¼ in
JC115
©Robert Colquhoun. All Rights Reserved 2024/Bridgeman Images
Provenance
A.J. McNeill Reid, by whom purchased at the Lefevre Gallery exhibition in 1947.Mr Kennedy-Martin.
The Poetry of Crisis: The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant-Garde Art 1930-1951; Christie’s, South Kensington, 15 November 2006, lot 256, where purchased.
Exhibitions
London, Lefevre Gallery, Robert Colquhoun, Exhibition of New Paintings, October - November 1947, no. 21.Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: Revealed, February - April 2014.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, October 2016 - January 2017.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, Kindred Spirits, November 2021 - February 2022.
Literature
The Green Book, Bristol, 1990, Vol. 3, no. 6, illustrated on the front cover; article by George Barker.Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 30.