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Lot 120AR

Alison Watt
(British, born 1965)
Study for Forbidden Fruit 25.5 x 20.3 cm. (10 x 8 in.)

14 October 2020, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

Sold for £7,562.50 inc. premium

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Alison Watt (British, born 1965)

Study for Forbidden Fruit
signed 'WATT' (lower right); titled and dated 'Study for Forbidden Fruit/1990' (verso)
oil on board
25.5 x 20.3 cm. (10 x 8 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
With Flowers East, London
Private Collection, U.K.

The present work is a study for the large triptych Cherries, Forbidden Fruit and Pear in a Landscape, which resides in Aberdeen Art Gallery. In the painting, the depictions of Venus, Eve, and the Virgin all share similarities with the artist, as was often the intention, creating her own personal mythology.

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