Artwork Title: Interior, The Red Chair

Interior, The Red Chair

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell

Interior, The Red Chair is characteristic of Cadell’s style during this period, the composition is cropped, the application of paint flat and controlled and the color bold and vivid. The painting is unpopulated with only a few pieces of carefully placed furniture; there is a sumptuous blue upholstered Louis XV style armchair, a simple rectangular mirror, a side table with an aspidistra carefully positioned on top and a cobalt-blue screen. Hanging on the mauve wall is a painting which is probably the watercolor Jack and Tommy depicting the back of the heads of a Royal Scots guard and a sailor. The red chair itself features prominently in a number of works painted during this period and Cadell was clearly interested in the geometric qualities of the ladder-backed chair and its saturated color.... Over the space of less than a decade Cadell had moved away from the refracted gentile pictures of the... (http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/scottish-art-l16135/lot.26.html)
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