Stanley Cursiter, C.B.E, P.R.S.W., R.S.A.

Loch Stenness

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November 22, 01:05 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Robertson Collection, Orkney

Stanley Cursiter, C.B.E, P.R.S.W., R.S.A.

1887-1976

Loch Stenness

signed Stanley Cursiter and dated 1949 (lower right)

oil on canvas board

unframed: 29 by 39.5cm.; 11½ by 15½in.

framed: 47 by 54.5cm.; 18½ by 21½

Executed in 1949.

T. & R. Annan & Sons, Glasgow
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, where acquired in 1983 by John Robertson and thence by family descent to the present owners

Orkney, Stromness, Pier Arts Centre, Stanley Cursiter Centenary Exhibition, 19 June - 1 August 1987, no. 40

The present work depicts Loch Stenness, a large brackish loch on the mainland of Orkney. The area is known for its natural beauty and incredible density of Neolithic sites and monuments.

In this work Cursiter shows the landscape dusted with a layer of snow and bathed in a soft winter light. This feel for light and colour is reminiscent of Cursiter's fellow Scottish Artists F.C.B. Cadell and S.J. Peploe who painted on the Hebridean island of Iona.