Φ John Maclauchlan Milne RSA (Scottish 1885-1957)

Φ John Maclauchlan Milne RSA (Scottish 1885-1957)
The Five Sisters of Kintail
Signed Maclauchlan Milne (lower left) and inscribed HILLS OF KINTAIL (to reverse)
Oil on canvas
71.8 x 91.7cm

Provenance:
Ian MacNicol, Glasgow;
The Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by the present private collectors, September 1981;
Private Collection, Yorkshire

Exhibited:
Royal Scottish Academy, 1934, no.386;
Glasgow, Pearson & Westergaard, September-October 1937

Literature:
M. N. Millar, The Missing Colourist: The Search of John Maclauchlan Milne, RSA (2022), pp.93, 183

John Maclauchaln Milne is often referred to as the ‘Fifth Scottish Colourist’. Like them his work was transformed in the early 20th Century when he encountered the paintings of the French avant-garde. As his obituarist wrote ‘like Peploe, he saw Cézanne and was immediately conquered’. Maclauchalan Milne spent the majority of the 1920s in France, but in the 1930s he focused on painting Scottish landscapes, imbuing them with the light and colour of the Mediterranean.