William Gillies RSA
Two Pots, Saucer and Fruit, 1933
oil on canvas
31.4 x 50.7cm
Like for artists such as Ben Nicholson, William Scott and Keith Vaughan featured in the Pier Collection, the French cubist Georges Braque was a significant influence on Gillies. This work...
Like for artists such as Ben Nicholson, William Scott and Keith Vaughan featured in the Pier Collection, the French cubist Georges Braque was a significant influence on Gillies. This work distinctly echoes a series of paintings featuring lemons that Braque painted at the end of the 1920s.
Gillies has created his own cubist reflection here by giving each object its own distinct pictorial space and stretching the simplicity of the composition to its limit.
Gillies has created his own cubist reflection here by giving each object its own distinct pictorial space and stretching the simplicity of the composition to its limit.
