A Boy

Artist Angus Menmuir Neil (Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 1924 - 1992)

Date1955

Mediumoil on panel

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 75.7 cm, Width: 51.3 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1997 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG012121

Keywords

Children

About MeAngus Neil was a friend and fellow artist of Joan Eardley and during the 1950s, when they were both living in Glasgow, painted similar subjects to her, such as the working class children living in the Gorbals, where they were also residents.

This study of a boy, seated in profile in the artist's studio, has a mood of quiet contemplation. The sitter seems unconscious of the world around him and unaware of how he appears. Neil enhances the intimacy of the scene by his use of subdued colours with which he delineates the child's dark features, grazed knees and relaxed pose.

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He seems lost to the world, but the grazed knees show he's not always so still!