#robert macbryde

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Robert MacBryde (British, 1913-1966), Circus Performer, c.1947. Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 25 1/2 in.

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Ave Maria Lane (1941), Robert MacBryde (1913–1966)

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Robert MacBryde (British/Scottish, 1913-1966) • Still Life with Cucumber • 1946 • National Gallery of Scotland

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Robert MacBryde 1913–1966

Still Life: Fish on a Pedestal Table

c.1950

Oil on canvas

H 61.3 x W 50.9 cm

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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A Tale of “The Two Roberts”

posted by Richard Stabbert (richard_stabbert on Instagram)

Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962) was a Scottish painter, printmaker and theatre set designer. In 1933, as a student at Glasgow Art School he met Robert MacBryde with whom he established a lifelong romantic and professional relationship. The pair became known as "the two Roberts". At the height of their acclaim they courted a large circle of friends that included Francis Bacon, Keith Vaughan Lucian Freud and John Minton and were renowned for the parties at the studio and home that they shared. Hailed as great artists of their generation it was not to last and during the 1950s their artistic reputation went into serious decline, and their heavy drinking made any serious effort to paint impossible and they lived in destitution. Robert Colquhoun died in MacBrydes arms, of alcoholism in obscurity in London in 1962. MacBryde moved to Dublin, where he was killed in a traffic accident in 1966.

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The Last Bohemians.

Lately, I have been sourcing as much information as I could about The Two Roberts. The artist Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun. 

The linked (short) documentary made by Ken Russell, was the first of some films recorded by Russell about visual artists for the BB´s arts standard, Monitor. 

In the record Allan McClelland narrates this 1959 film by Ken Russell - a double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.

MacBryde and Colquhoun are pulled along by a horse-drawn cart before taking their paintings into a timbered cottage in the Suffolk countryside. It's close enough to London for sales purposes, and cheap enough at a pound a week to let them paint full-time. We’re told they will continue working there ‘until they find a studio for even less than a pound’. They stayed until 1961.

Watch here.

For those that would like to know a bit more about The two Roberts and this story of love, I link below an article from The Guardian.

The Last Bohemians by Roger Bristow.

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Robert MacBryde (Scottish, 1913-1966), Woman with Cantaloupe, 1946. Oil on canvas

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Robert MacBryde. Scottish artist, flamboyant knife wielder. Gay. Melon conneisseur.