13th Mar, 2025 10:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
* JOHN LAURIE (BRITISH 1916 - 1972)
PORTRAIT
mixed media on paper, signed and dated '47
mounted, framed and under glass
image size 75cm x 54cm, overall size 104cm x 83cm
Label verso: Doig, Wilson and Wheatley, Edinburgh.
Note: Painter and teacher, born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was educated in Glasgow, then attended the School of Art there, 1933–6, and at Patrick Allan-Fraser School of Art, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, 1938–40, with James Cowie. Won RSA Carnegie Travelling Scholarship in 1939. He was for periods a lecturer at Glasgow School of Art and a lecturer for the Arts Council. Exhibited RSA, SSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and elsewhere. A number of his works, including a portrait of James Cowie, were reproduced. Lived in Glasgow.
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