Denis Peploe
RSA Born: 1914Died: 1993
Denis Peploe was born in 1914, the second son of the celebrated Scottish Colourist S J Peploe. Denis Peploe enrolled at Edinburgh College of Art at the age of seventeen where he was a contemporary of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Margaret Mellis. He won post-diploma scholarships to Paris and Florence and took advantage of opportunity to travel extensively in Spain, Italy and Yugoslavia. He first exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in 1947, to critical acclaim. The Glasgow Herald critic responded to the exhibition, saying he was “an artist born fully armed”; and The Bulletin critic wrote: “the general impression of the exhibition is that we have in Denis Peploe a vital and adventurous painter”. Reviewers never avoided mention of his father, and though one couldn’t confuse their work there were similarities in their approaches: each picture was a response to a particular subject, either intellectual or emotional. His son, Gallery Director, Guy Peploe explains:
‘While he was intimately exposed to the mainstream of European art he remained better defined as an artist who responded directly to his subject, en plein air or in the studio. Here the challenge was a live model, or the intellectual exercise of reinvigorating the still life subject. His work remained free of political or art-world references but was at the same time formed by the century of modernism, the times of unprecedented turmoil and change to which he belonged. His response was to cleave to the idea that art was important, even redemptive and that it could somehow describe a better, or more vital place.’
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Still Life with Three Jugs View details
Denis Peploe
Still Life with Three Jugs
1951oil on canvasH:51cm W:61cm£5,250Denis Peploe View details-
Rocks and Landscape, West Coast View details
Denis Peploe
Rocks and Landscape, West Coast
c.1945oil on canvasH:61cm W:51cmSoldRain Clouds over Skye View detailsDenis Peploe
Rain Clouds over Skye
c.1950oil on canvasH:45cm W:60cmSoldSpanish Town on the Beach View detailsDenis Peploe
Spanish Town on the Beach
oil on canvasH:61cm W:51cmSoldSeated Nude with Black Fan View detailsDenis Peploe
Seated Nude with Black Fan
oil on canvasH:71.5cm W:95cmSoldBen Damh View detailsDenis Peploe
Ben Damh
oil on canvasH:63.5cm W:76cmSoldPansies, Shell and Mountain View detailsDenis Peploe
Pansies, Shell and Mountain
c.1975oil on canvasH:46cm W:61cmSoldTorquil's Tins View detailsDenis Peploe
Torquil's Tins
c.1955oil on canvasH:64cm W:76cmSoldSpanish Hill Village View detailsDenis Peploe
Spanish Hill Village
1955oil on canvasH:63.5cm W:76cmSoldJura View detailsLoading
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