The Fisherman's Regatta, Brittany

Artist David Macbeth Sutherland (Wick, Scotland, 1883 - 1973)

Date1943

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 102.4 cm, Width: 127.7 cm
Frame: Height: 112 cm, Width: 137 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1975.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG003741

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About MeFrom 1933 D.M. Sutherland was Head of Painting at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. He painted many landscape scenes of the Scottish countryside but also travelled to north-west France, painting the Breton people in their distinctive traditional costume, as in this painting.

His early upbringing in Wick had nurtured in him a love of the sea and all things nautical and this interest appeared many times in his art.

Painted in 1943 (although almost certainly based on sketches made much earlier) this scene seems a world away from war-torn Europe and instead recalls happier times, when traditional feasts and costume typified this part of Celtic France with which Scotland shares so many common ties.

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This painting may be depicting the Breton fishing port of Concarneau, the location of an art colony and a number of Sutherland's Breton landscapes.