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Sam, Denis and Margaret at the ‘Bay at the Back of the Ocean’,Iona, c.1925.Rocks, Iona, c.1920Oil on panel, 36.8 x 44 cmsProvenance: Fine Art Society, London; The Fleming Collection,London, 1968; Private CollectionPeploe first visited Iona in 1919 and was a regular and frequentvisitor until 1933. The Iona subjects were very popular andhelped cement his reputation in the 1920s. Iona is a small island,dominated by the green of the machair but Peploe only paintedat the North End where sand and rocks give way to sea and theislands beyond. He never painted a single blade of grass!42