* JOHN MACLAUCHLAN MILNE RSA (SCOTTISH 1885 - 1957),
MARKET, ST TROPEZ
watercolour on paper, signed, titled label verso
image size 37cm x 49cm, overall size 59cm x 73cm
Mounted, framed and under glass.
Handwritten label verso.
Provenance: Recently inherited from a long term family collection.
Note: Although John Maclauchlan Milne was best known as a painter in oils, he also worked in watercolour. Few of his French watercolours have come to the market in recent years but "Market, St Tropez" is an exceptionally fine and rare example. During the First World War Maclauchlan Milne left his home in Dundee to fight in France on the Western Front. France had a strong impression on the young artist. From 1919-1932 he spent long periods in France. Initially, he stayed at rue des Quatre-Vents in Paris but by 1924 Milne was in Cassis with Peploe, Cadell and Duncan Grant. They also spent considerable time in San Tropez. Almost all his exhibits in the 1920’ s were of Mediterranean subjects. His obituarist wrote ‘ like Peploe, he saw Cézanne and was immediately conquered… Here in the Midi, Milne found himself and the impact of this new experience stamped all his subsequent work’.