LEONARD ROSOMAN
1913-2012
A Winter Landscape
Oil on canvas
66 x 76 cm (framed)
Signed (lower-right)
POA
Provenance
Lady Ransthdowne
Sale, Christie’s London, 13th July 2000, lot 150
Duncan R. Miller Fine Arts, London, 2010
Private collection
Description
Rosoman taught at the Edinburgh College of Art between 1948 and 1956. It is during his time in Scotland that he is likely to have produced the painting. The composition is a striking study in the representation of winter light, contrasting cooler tones with that of the landscape and snow.
“In the 1950s his easel paintings offered a quieter kind of mystery, in which shadowy figures move through twilit landscapes...
Many of the paintings of the Edinburgh years relate, obliquely, to Rosoman’s personal life and are marked by a sense of mystery and tranquillity.”