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With a new cover to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of S. J. Peploe’s birth, fully revised and expanded since its first publication in 2000, Guy Peploe’s insightful book on his artist grandfather reveals the considerable talents of one of Scotland’s greatest painters and leading Colourists. With the narrative constructed around private papers and images found within the family archive, the life and work of a driven and gifted artist is presented. Complemented by images drawn from the painter’s whole career, the beautiful reproductions reveal Peploe’s skill of reinvention as he absorbed the manifold influences of the period in which he worked. Yet while the impact of particular movements and artists can be detected in Peploe’s oeuvre, his paintings also display a distinct vision which mark them out as significant contributions to the rich seam of art produced during the twentieth century. Capturing the spirit of the man and the vibrant point in history in which his work matured, S. J. Peploe provides the definitive account of one of Scotland’s most important artists.
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Born in 1871, he is the senior of the four artists now known as The Scottish Colourists. S.J. Peploe had his first exhibition at The Scottish Gallery in 1903 and a life long association with us until his untimely death in 1935. He lived in Paris from 1910 until 1912, where his work changed radically from paintings reminiscent of Manet and Sargent to brilliant Fauvist works which placed him in the vanguard of British Modernism. By the time of his early death aged sixty-four in 1935, he was recognised as a great painter but only by a small coterie of collectors and curators, like Ion Harrison and Stanley Cursiter and it has taken a further fifty years for his national and international significance to be fully appreciated.
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