Portrait Of A Woman With A Bob, Vintage Original Oil Painting, Scottish, 1930S

ORIGINAL OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING DEPICTING A FEMALE SITTER, 20TH CENTURY

A characterful portrait depicting a woman deep in thought, exuding a fun yet strong energy in a classic 1920s/1930s black bob with flowers in her hair and wrapped in a chequered smock or coat. She is sitting in front of a sash window with a lush green garden behind.

The artist has used different techniques to great effect. It feels like the painting was painted with confident energy throughout, using thicker impasto in places with more sketchy brushstrokes in others, also utilising the negative space of the raw canvas underneath.

A cooling, calm colour palette of bluey greens provides a soothing backdrop.

This work is unsigned; however, we have three portraits available, all by the same hand, and one of the three was signed with an indistinct monogram, which we have been unable to decipher confidently, but could possibly be ‘G.R.’ Whoever the artist was, it feels like it was painted by an accomplished hand. By repute, the paintings are Scottish in origin, and this fits as they are very much in the style of the Scottish Colourists.

The other signed work was dated ‘1931’, and this work seems to be of the same period. This work probably dates to the 1920s/1930s period.

In a later, yet complementary high-quality gilt frame.

The painting itself is in excellent vintage condition with only minor wear commensurate with age and no tears/holes to the canvas, and there doesn’t appear to be any restoration. The frame is also in similarly good vintage order.

Overall approximate measurements: 63cm x 45cm x 3cm. The canvas itself measures approximately 54cm x 35cm.