Download PDF: SJ Peploe - The Scottish Gallery
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Baby, c.1904Signed lower rightOil on panel, 24 x 16.5 cmsProvenance: <strong>The</strong> Proudfoot Collection; <strong>The</strong> <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>,Edinburgh; <strong>The</strong> Fine Art Society, London, May 1987Baby belongs to a group of human-subject pictures the artistmade in his Devon Place studio in the early years of the 20thcentury. <strong>The</strong>se include Man Laughing, a portrait of a chubby boyrecently with Aberdeen Art <strong>Gallery</strong>, several self-portraits andthe many images of Jeannie Blyth. For each the painter has sethimself a challenge: to paint animation, sometimes to embracethe conventionally ugly (for which he is criticised by Sir JamesCaw) but always to work at a pitch of intensity and risk, tocapture something fleeting and allow the paint its full expressivepotential.<strong>The</strong> sitter is not known but it is tempting to imagine it to be achild of Jeannie Blyth who had first sat for <strong>Peploe</strong> in around 1896but was married by 1900.18