13th Mar, 2025 10:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
* BARBARA 'BABS' REDPATH (BRITISH 1924 - 2003)
THE ATTIC
oil on board, signed and titled verso
framed
image size 52cm x 95cm, overall size 62cm x 105cm
Note: Painter and teacher born in London. Educated Streatham, then studied at Edinburgh College of Art, where she was an Andrew Grant Scholar, 1942–4 and 1945–7, her teachers including William Gillies and John Maxwell. In 1948 a travelling scholarship took her to Italy. She went on to work for a time in the education department of Kelvingrove Museum and Art Galleries, in Glasgow, where she settled. Showed widely in Scotland, including SSA, RSA and elsewhere, having a number of solo shows in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde hold her work.
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