Provenance
With Ian MacNicol, Glasgow.
Sale; Christies, Hopetoun, 15th October 1969, Lot 122

Literature
Illustrated in G Peploe, SJ Peploe, Lund Humphries/The Scottish Gallery, 2012, p.30

This painting has been referred to as a portrait of Margaret, the artist's wife, dressed as a gypsy. However, it is now widely believed to depict one of the Blyth sister's, who were related to the kings of the Gypsies. Guy Peploe describes the figure as being "posed in front of the landscape, which is related strongly to small works on panel, the earliest known landscapes made in the Pentlands and above Comrie in Perthshire. The setting adds a rare narrative possibility to the interpretation: it is the romantic idea of the gypsy as traveller, but could equally reference the bucolic, vulnerable archetype of Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, published in 1892. It is one of his many single-female studies he made throughout his life which suggest a narrative but remain essentially enigmatic." (G Peploe, SJ Peploe, Lund Humphries/The Scottish Gallery, 2012, p.33)

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