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framed dimensions: 84 x 73.5 cm
signed and dated lower left
While most of his contemporaries finishing their Diplomas at a Scottish Art College sought a post-diploma placement in Italy or France, James Cumming spent a year on the Isle of Lewis after completing his studies, interrupted by War service, at Edinburgh. In this time, he developed a highly personal style to depict island life, in winter confined to ill-lit cottages and pubs. L’Entracte, the interval, sees the band perhaps about to resume their set, a stout figure on the right in Glengarry and with an accordion slung over his neck. To his left a second figure is more difficult to read, perhaps seated, Braque violin over his shoulder, cigarette in his mouth as he speaks to someone outside the frame of the setting. The painting functions as entirely abstract, but Cumming has included enough real observation to take us to the smoky venue, half the village in attendance, the long nights and howling winds outside forgotten.
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