Portrait of a Scottish Officer Neutral Medium details: Graphite

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His knowledge of painting and anatomy is absolute

and poetry collections is an absolute joy

Despite that

He was represented for years by a much more grown-up dealer in Colourist paintings and the ilk around the corner

Portrait of a Scottish Officer Neutral Medium details: GraphiteThis rather haunted portrait of an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is likely to have been painted on a return visit from Poland. Signed and dated 1915, this man must have already experienced the senseless attrition of trench warfare. It is a small scale canvas and although the sitter is in uniform it has an informality about it that suggests a window of opportunity grasped. Perhaps he is about to go back to the front and his wife,