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oil on board, signed framed image size 62cm x 52cm, overall size 80cm x 69cm Note: Of all the genres of fine art, Redpath is most closely associated with that of the still life. Her love for this theme stretches back to her student days at Edinburgh College of Art, as she recalled: “When I was at college I was very fond of still life. People said I wasn’t actually painting what was in front of me, that it was a vision of still life. Those were more impressionistic than I have ever done since, because I was terribly keen on light, high pitched light and shadow, and I used more of an accidental quality than I have ever done since. “Indeed, the first work which Redpath exhibited in public was titled Still Life and was displayed at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) in 1919. Following her marriage in 1920 and fourteen years spent living in France, Redpath returned to Scotland in 1934. She resumed painting in earnest and emerged as an artist of importance. This was recognised by the first acquisition of one of her works for a public collection, when the RSA purchased the still life The Lace Cloth for £50 in 1944. Admiration for her still life’s soon spread to England; when the Sunday Times art critic Eric Newton reviewed the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) exhibition of 1948, he exclaimed ‘Anne Redpath’s still life’s stand out like patches of blue sky on a grey day.’ The following year, Redpath moved to Edinburgh where she set about decorating her new home with the objects she loved to collect and which were often the subject matter of her work.