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Centenary Exhibition

3 August 2017 - 2 September 2017

The Melon Seller, 1995

oil on canvas
H:38cm W:51cm
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Wet Nurse II, c.1958

oil on canvas
H:39.5cm W:30.5cm
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The Sicilian Cart

oil on board
H:56cm W:85cm
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Still Life with Flowers and Blue Cloth, c.1962

oil on canvas
H:55cm W:45cm
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Still Life with Three Oranges, c.1965

oil on canvas
H:46cm W:57.5cm
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Farmhouse at Rosas, 1971

oil on canvas
H:60cm W:74cm
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Boy at a Window, c.1973

mixed media
H:19cm W:24cm
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Bird Seller, c. 1973

oil on board
H:28cm W:20cm
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Tay Bridge from Newport, c.1975

oil on canvas
H:46.5cm W:56cm
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Pumpkin and Cactus, 1985

oil on canvas
H:54.6cm W:57.2cm
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Still Life with Black Cat, 1985

oil on canvas
H:61.5cm W:91.5cm
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Woman with Fishing Basket, 1987

H:26cm W:19.5cm
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The Beach Tent, c.1987

oil on board
H:54cm W:53cm
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Woman Ironing, 1988

oil on board
H:21cm W:25cm
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Three Women by the Sea, 1989

pastel
H:24cm W:31cm
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Three Women by the Sea, 1988

oil on canvas
H:56cm W:60.5cm
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Woman in the Window with Dove, 1995

oil on canvas
H:76cm W:63.5cm
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Maria, 1987

oil on board
H:38cm W:40.5cm
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Still Life with White Bird, 1991

oil on canvas
H:54.5cm W:80cm
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Born: 1917
Place of Birth: Aberdeen
Died: 1998

Alberto Morrocco was born in Aberdeen to Italian parents in 1917. He attended Gray’s School of Art from the prodigious age of fourteen, tutored by James Cowie and Robert Sivell, and won the Carnegie and Brough travelling scholarships, affording him opportunity to paint and study in France, Italy and Switzerland in the late 1930s. After serving in the army between 1940-46 he devoted his time to painting. His subject matter varied from the domestic interior, landscape, imaginings of Italian life, still life and many commissioned portraits. Combining his talent with abundant energy he became one of the most dominant figures in the Scottish artworld in the second half of the 20th century. David McClure succinctly explained: ‘Alberto painted as an Italian operatic tenor sings, that is with a passionate theatricality and always con brio. Alberto Morrocco was the subject of a centenary exhibition at The Gallery in August 2017.


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