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
A winter landscape by Leonard Rosoman, likely painted during his time teaching at Edinburgh College of Art between 1948 and 1956. The composition explores the effects of winter light, balancing cool, subdued tones with the pale surfaces of snow and surrounding forms.
“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.”