10th Nov, 2019 13:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
MAUSOLEUM OF HALICARNASSUS, A GOUACHE BY JAMES MCNAUGHT
* JAMES MCNAUGHT RSW RGI (SCOTTISH b 1948),
MAUSOLEUM OF HALICARNASSUS
gouache on paper, signed and dated 1983; titled verso
31cm x 26cm
Mounted, framed and under glass.
Provenance: label verso The Portal Gallery, 16A Grafton Street, London.
Note: James McNaught RSW RGI (b.1948) paints buildings and street scenes, mysterious figures and other narrative elements in fictional combinations. James McNaught was born in Glasgow, the only son of parents who worked as carpet designers at Templeton’s Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green. He studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and at Hospitalfield between 1966 and 1970. He won the Royal Scottish Academy painting award in 1970. In 2010 he won the Sir William Gillies Award at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. James paints in gouache and watercolour with a delicate touch and a faultless technique. His paintings have an obsessive quality, they are witty and enigmatic and depict a surreal, brooding, slightly threatening world. McNaught has had multiple solo exhibitions in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Munich. His paintings are highly sought after and held in significant private collections worldwide.
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