Robert Colquhoun

Two Sisters

1945

© The estate of Robert Colquhoun

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Artist: Robert Colquhoun 1914–1962
Medium: Watercolour and chalk on paper
Dimensions: Support: 565 × 381 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1958
Reference: T00185

Catalogue entry

T00185 TWO SISTERS 1945

Inscr. ‘Colquhoun 45.’ b.r.
Watercolour and coloured chalk, 22 1/4×15 (56·5×38).
Purchased from Michael Ayrton through the Whitechapel Art Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1958.
Coll: Purchased by Michael Ayrton from the artist through the Lefevre Gallery 1945.
Exh: Whitechapel Art Gallery, March–May 1958 (109), as lent by the Redfern Gallery.
Repr: Michael Ayrton, British Drawings, 1946, facing p.41 (in colour).

Made while Colquhoun was living in Bedford Gardens, London, in the same house as Robert MacBryde, John Minton and Jankel Adler. On the backing of this drawing (now detached) was a fantastic landscape by Minton signed and dated 1939. The drawing is made with special German chalks, which the artist may have obtained from Jankel Adler and used for only about a dozen works.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I