Seated Nude, Anne Estelle Rice, Private Collection.
Ink and watercolour, 22 x 17 cms.
© The Fergusson Gallery, Perth & Kinross Council, Scotland
Bathers and Yachts, The Fergusson Gallery, Perth.
Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 73.5 cms.
© The Fergusson Gallery, Perth & Kinross Council, Scotland
Les Eus (c. 1910), Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
Oil on canvas, 216 x 277 cms.
One of Fergusson’s most ambitious canvases, this painting belongs to a significant group of large-scale nudes painted in Paris between 1910 and 1913. The six sculptural figures are depicted dancing against a stylised background suggestive of the Garden of Eden, and reminiscent of the medieval The Lady and the Unicorn tapestry series in the Musée de Cluny, Paris. The painting explores the heroic human figure and the theme of dance; unusually, both the male and female nudes are depicted in an equally robust and full-bodied way. The artist’s interest in dance can be attributed to the sensation caused in Paris by the first performances of the Ballet Russes in 1909 and 1910.
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Bathers, The Parasol, The Fergusson Gallery, Perth.
Oil on canvas, 102 x 127.5 cms.
© The Fergusson Gallery, Perth & Kinross Council, Scotland