12th Sep, 2024 10:00

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction

 
  Lot 108
 

* MOLLY GARNIER
AWAKE 3

oil on canvas, signed and titled verso
unframed, as intended

overall size 81cm x 41cm

Note: The critic Moira Jeffrey has called Garnier's work ''reminiscent of Degas and those Victorian photographs of women accidentally glimpsed in domestic surroundings''. Duncan MacMillan wrote in The Scotsman in 2003 of her ''small smoky images of the female nude that are quite memorable'' and in 2004 of Garnier's ''exquisite small nude paintings'' Garnier originally exhibited mostly in Scotland. In Edinburgh, at the RSA Annual Exhibitions, the RSA's Visual Arts Scotland, the Royal College of Physicians, The Leith Gallery, The Morningside Gallery, The Scottish Gallery, and the Phoenix 369 Gallery; and also at The Compass Gallery, Glasgow, The South Street Gallery, St Andrews, Frames Gallery, Perth, The Cairns Gallery, Peebles, the Paisley Institute of Art and Design, Paisley, and the RendezVous Gallery, Aberdeen. More recently she has exhibited regularly at the Lime Tree Gallery in Long Melford, Suffolk, and Bristol. She has had three solo shows at Lime Tree Gallery. In London, she has exhibited work at Painters & Hall, The Northcote Gallery, The Air Gallery, and The Collyer-Bristow Gallery.Her awards include The W. Gordon Smith Award and the Linda Clark Nolan Award at the Royal Scottish Academy, The Andrew Grant Bequest Travel Scholarship (Paris) from the Edinburgh College of Art and The 2006 Lynn Painter-Stainers Young Artist Award (London).

 

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Sold for £110
Estimated at £100 - £200


 
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