13th Mar, 2025 10:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
* NORMAN EDGAR RGI (SCOTTISH 1948 - 2022)
PORTRAIT OF A GIRL
oil on canvas, signed
framed and under glass
image size 46cm x 41cm, overall size 62cm x 57cm
Note: Norman Edgar studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1966 to 70 and went on to teach there until 1990, when he left in order to paint full-time. He was a landscape and portrait painter, working in the Colourist tradition. A member of the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, he showed work regularly in the annual Royal Scottish Academy exhibitions. He was a long time resident of Gourock on the south bank of the River Clyde and marine activities feature prominently in his work. He was also widely regarded to be one of Scotland's leading still life painters. Known collections include: HRH The late Duke of Edinburgh, Heriot Watt University, Greenock Art Gallery, Argyll Education Authority, Renfrew Education Authority, Lord Morton, Guinness Plc, United Distillers, Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden, Glasgow Dental Hospital, Pitlochry Theatre and in numerous corporate and private collections in the USA, Germany and the UK.
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