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This image's exoticism and the title link with JD Fergusson's earlier portraits. During his Paris years, Fergusson painted many studio portraits, typically setting his sitters against lush textile drapes decorated with flowers and foliage.
📷 Voile Indienne, 1933
This is one of a series of paintings that JD Fergusson made of the American fashion artist Roberta (Bobbie) Paflin. Fergusson painted several portraits of Paflin including 'Bobbie, Champs Elysees' and 'The Ochre Coat'.
📸 The Red Hat, Bobbie, 1933.
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From the collection, how about this spooktacular 1905 Margaret Morris drawing, 'The Witch'?
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🖼️ Winter Sunset, Millie Frood, 1950.
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📷 Bathers, Evening, John Duncan Fergusson.
Pique Nique en Provence, JD Fergusson.
Fergusson echoes a time-honoured and popular artistic theme in this painting of female nudes at a picnic. The concept behind the 'fete champetre' tradition was that the nudes should embody the fruitfulness of nature around them.
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Today's @MuseumWeek's theme is #SexualityMW. With our new exhibition 'Sin' opening this Saturday, we thought we'd give you a taste of one of the works on show.
JD Fergusson's 1910 work 'Etude de Rhythm' is all curves, colour and energy.
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JD Fergusson died #OTD in 1961
What's your favourite work by Fergusson? Is it one of the works we've picked out, or perhaps something else? Have a look at over 170 works by JD Fergusson on the @artukdotorg website - https://t.co/lEgaCoj7mW
Continuity with the past was maintained by JD Fergusson through occasional paintings made from memory. This work of the mid-1930s nostalgically recalls the summer he spent with Margaret Morris in Cap d’Antibes in the south of France.
🖼️ Summer, 1914 > https://t.co/OVOkcYJJ9k