In acknowledgement of the 150th Anniversary of S. J. Peploe’s birth, Studio Life at 150 examines five major aspects of the artist’s practice: Still Life, The Models, The Colourist, The Landscape and Drawing.

We have produced a lavish, fully illustrated 120 page publication alongside a complementary events programme to celebrate the artist’s life and work. Guy Peploe pays tribute to his grandfather and gives a personal insight into the life and practice of Scotland’s first modernist. The Scottish Gallery is proud to call itself home to S. J. Peploe, whose ground-breaking art continues to inspire to this day.

S.J. Peploe

Born: 1871

Place of Birth: Edinburgh

Died: 1935

Born in 1871, he is the senior of the four artists now known as The Scottish Colourists. S.J. Peploe had his first exhibition at The Scottish Gallery in 1903 and a life long association with us until his untimely death in 1935. He lived in Paris from 1910 until 1912, where his work changed radically from paintings reminiscent of Manet and Sargent to brilliant Fauvist works which placed him in the vanguard of British Modernism. By the time of his early death aged sixty-four in 1935, he was recognised as a great painter but only by a small coterie of collectors and curators, like Ion Harrison and Stanley Cursiter and it has taken a further fifty years for his national and international significance to be fully appreciated.

We have more available works by S.J. Peploe. Please contact the Gallery if you would like to arrange an appointment to view the works we currently have available for sale.

Furthermore, should you have any work you would be interested in selling please do contact the gallery on 0131 558 1200.

Guy Peploe is the world’s leading authority on the work of S.J. Peploe.

Studio Life at 150

S.J. Peploe

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