Still Life on Red Cloth

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Alberto MORROCCO
Born Aberdeen, 1917-1998

Still Life on Red Cloth, 1986

Oil on canvas
Purchased 1987 with 50% NFA grant
Museum number 268-1987

Still life was part of Morrocco's art college training, a genre that he continued to paint for the rest of his life, most enthusiastically from the 1970s. This painting is characteristic of much of his later work, with the bravura combination of vivid colours.