William Gillies RSA
Still Life With Black Jug, 1933
Oil on canvas
56.5 x 127.1 cm (sight)
71.3 x 142 cm (frame)
71.3 x 142 cm (frame)
From the RSA Collection
Still Life with Black Jug is quite a unique painting. Gillies uses a stretched format to explore the nature and presence of objects. The painting is informed by the Cubist...
Still Life with Black Jug is quite a unique painting. Gillies uses a stretched format to explore the nature and presence of objects. The painting is informed by the Cubist approaches he encountered when in Paris with his friend, the artist William Crozier, in 1923. The black vase to the left would be used by Gillies throughout his still lifes as a reminder of death, but it first appears here, shortly after the passing of his young friend Crozier in 1930.
