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s.J. Peploe (1871–1935) Royan, 1910 oil on panel, 27 x 35 cms signed verso Painted on Paris-american art Company board exhibited: aitken Dott & son, the scottish Gallery, 1940 Peploe, Cadell, Hunter, Royal scottish academy festival exhibition, 1949 A Selection of Modern Scottish, English and French Paintings, art Council Gallery, edinburgh, 1956, (no. 20) s.J. Peploe, Paintings and Drawings, Duncan Miller fine art, london, 1993, (no. 15) 66
Peploe married Margaret Mackay on April the fifth 1910 at the Morningside Registry Office. They had decided to move to Paris and would break the journey at Broadway in the Cotswolds. He had written a month before: ‘I see the train leaves at 10.15. That is the only morning train and the next is 2.00 o’clock which is too late. Shall we need to get married at 8.00 o’clock in the morning; why not? Before breakfast.’ The move had long been urged by John Duncan Fergusson, already living in Montparnasse, but the immediate spur was Margaret’spregnancy. They set up home in a tiny studio apartment at 278 Boulevard Raspail but by August had joined Fergusson and Anne Estelle Rice in Royan in the Charante. Royan was fashionable resort with a fine Casino on the promenade, beaches and a busy marina. Willy was born on August 29th. The work Peploe made here can now be seen as thoroughly modernist: the palette is bold and like the Fauves at Collioure four years before he moves away from naturalism to push colour as a direct, emotional tool no doubt reflecting the freedom and excitement he felt as his life moved into a new sphere. The Royan pictures of the harbour and streets of villas behind the front, of the Paris parks, and those made in Brittany the following summer can be seen together as one of the great engagements made by a British artist with French modernism. Light is no longer dissolving form and instead a new structure is sought; natural forms are simplified and non-naturalistic colour preferred. These were the works that would be initially rejected by the dealers and collectors who had been his patrons but Peploe was not for turning and the balance of his life as a painter looks forward, never back. 67
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the taste of JW Blyth
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elevation plan to Wilby house, 1909
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Collecting Blyth kept a simple reco
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the hawcklymuir factory, Kirkcaldy
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and Explanatory Notes on the Art of
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Peploe in terms of colour: ‘altho
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Blyth’s conversion was certainly
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