Portrait Of A Woman With Plaited Hair, Vintage Original Oil Painting, Scottish

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

A characterful portrait depicting a woman deep in thought, exuding strength and energy with two long plaits (braids) and a woollen jumper (sweater) in a natural setting.

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, unusually with the light source behind the sitter.

The work is signed with an indistinct monogram to the lower right, 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. We have three portraits available, all by the same hand, but this is the only one that is signed. By repute, they are Scottish in origin, and this fits as they are very much in the style of the Scottish Colourists.

Also dated to the lower right ‘1931’.

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: 71cm x 61cm x 4cm (28” x 24”). The canvas itself measures 61cm x 51cm (24” x 20”)