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Douglas Thomson
Expressionist Female Nude Portrait, 'The Green Curtain' Oil on Canvas.

1980s

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Expressionist female nude portrait by noted Scottish artist Douglas Thomson. The painting is signed bottom left and signed and titled to the back of the canvas. There is an original exhibition title and price label to the frame. Presented in original plain wood frame. A colourful and striking portrait of a female nude. Her rich red hair falling over her shoulders, her pose calm as she stares out from the canvas in a wistful way, her mouth set. Thomson has created flesh tones, wonderful contrast of colours between the sitter and the background curtain and wall and a texture to the canvas to create added interest. A really interesting and engaging portrait. Douglas Thomson was born in Greenock in 1955 and after studying at the Glasgow School of Art 1974-78 and has exhibited paintings, prints and sculpture widely, with major solo shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Bath, Nürnberg, Munich and Gstaad. Glasgow remains his home, though he has lived and worked in Germany, and travelled widely. Marina Vaizey, art critic of The Sunday Times, wrote of him: "Thomson creates, in paintings, monoprints and sculptures of heads, a world of his own. Is it an alternative world, a world of myth? What seems to me most clear is that, capturing the viewer with a subtle web of colour, form and texture, Thomson proposes an almost endless variety of human relationships." When making portraits and self-portraits, Expressionist artists seek to communicate meaning or emotional experience more than to create a faithful likeness of themselves or their sitters. Primarily working in Germany and Austria during the 1910s and 1920s, and still reeling from the carnage of World War I, they were interested in capturing their subjects’ psychological states. They used formal methods such as distortion, non-naturalistic colours, and unusual settings to help to achieve this.
  • Creator:
    Douglas Thomson (1955, Scottish)
  • Creation Year:
    1980s
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 28.35 in (72 cm)Width: 23.23 in (59 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Cotignac, FR
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: LG/Thomson1stDibs: LU1430213351722

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