The Blue Pool

Augustus Edwin John (Welsh, 1878-1961) - The Blue Pool, 1911 (Oil on panel. Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums) - “Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse. He then developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant, catching an instantaneous attitude in his subjects.”