Lot 1075: Eric Harald MacBeth Robertson (1887 - 1941) Modern

Eric Harald MacBeth Robertson (1887 - 1941)
Modern allegorical subject, with four female figures
Watercolour, unsigned 21 x 17 cm
Footnote: Eric Robertson and his first wife, Cecile Walton (daughter of the painter E A Walton) were an artistic couple of exceptional talent in the first few decades of the 20th century. Their story is told in 'The Two Companions' by John Kemplay (Edinburgh, 1991). Besides exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy, they were members of the Edinburgh Group, a Society that exhibited more challenging art between 1912 and 1921. The couple's lifestyle raised eyebrows, as did Eric Robertson's highly charged erotic subjects. Cecile Walton's most famous painting is her self-portrait as a nursing mother (called 'Romance') in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.