30th Jan, 2025 10:00

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction

 
  Lot 49
 

* PETER WHITE (SCOTTISH b. 1959)
HEAD

oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated 1990 verso
unframed

overall size 41cm x 36cm

Note: Peter White (b. 1959) is a Scottish artist known for his almost geologically-textured paintings of apparently simple subjects – a head, boat, book or bowl. Peter White elevates these hollow things into something powerful. They become vessels which contain a life-force, or a memory of the life which once existed in them. White has developed his technique over many years, now using a mixture of oil, acrylic and wax to create these works which can be monumental or the scale of personal icons. Peter White was born in Ayrshire, studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, and since the mid-1990s has lived and worked in the North West of Scotland.

 

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Sold for £460
Estimated at £200 - £400


 
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