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In 1969, Pat Douthwaite was one of ten Scottish artists exhibited in New Tendencies in Scottish Art at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh. For its exhibition catalogue he wrote: ‘In Patricia Douthwaite Scotland has an artist who has the capacity to shock and horrify in the long Northern European tradition which goes back to Grosz and the German Expressionists. Thankfully, her black humour is mingled with compassion.’ Demarco admired her shocking subject matter and emotion, and what he believed to be a type of expressionism never before seen in Scottish painting. Female Figure is a bold and dramatic example: the female with her serpentine smile appears grotesque and imperfect, which makes her all the more human.
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