Anne Redpath valuation
Painted the ordinary table, the tilted chair and the Spanish church in thick unmixed colour.
Anne Redpath was born at Galashiels in 1895, the daughter of a tweed designer, and trained at Edinburgh College of Art.
What a work by Anne Redpath is worth
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Bio
Anne Redpath was born at Galashiels in 1895, the daughter of a tweed designer, and trained at Edinburgh College of Art. She married an architect, lived in France for fourteen years and painted almost nothing while raising three sons, then returned to the Borders in 1934 and began again in her forties. The Indian Rug, a still life seen from above with the table tipped up towards the viewer, is the picture that established the manner: everyday objects, boldly simplified, in thick paint and strong colour. Later travels produced the Spanish, Corsican and Venetian church interiors. She was the first woman painter elected a full Royal Scottish Academician, and died in 1965.
Oils are unique and are often on board rather than canvas, painted with a heavily loaded brush and a knife, so the impasto is structural and chips at the edges. Still lifes and the church interiors are the subjects most asked for. There is also a substantial body of watercolours and gouaches. Signature is normally a plain Anne Redpath, and dating is often absent, so exhibition labels and Scottish gallery provenance carry the identification. The work is well documented in the Scottish literature.
Hawick, the Academy and the Edinburgh School
Redpath married the architect James Michie in 1920 and lived in the Pas-de-Calais and then the south of France; two of their sons, Alastair and David Michie, became artists. Back in Hawick from 1934, she was president of the Scottish Society of Women Artists from 1944 to 1947. The Royal Scottish Academy elected her an associate in 1947 and an Academician in 1952, and she was made an OBE in 1955.
From the late 1940s she lived in Edinburgh, and in the 1950s and early 1960s painted in Spain, the Canary Islands, Corsica, Brittany and Venice. She is often grouped with her contemporaries as the Edinburgh School. Patrick Bourne's book Anne Redpath 1895–1965: Her Life and Work was published in 1989.
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