David Michie, OBE, RSA, was born in San Raphael in the South of France in 1928, the son of the renowned Scottish artist Anne Redpath. After national service service (1947 to 1949) when he qualified as an instructor in the Royal Artillery Signals Training regiment, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1949 to 1953, where he was taught by William Gillies, and then won a travelling scholarship to Italy. Later he taught at the College, from 1982 to 1990 as Head of the Drawing and Painting Department, becoming an Honorary Vice-President. In 1979 he was Visiting Artist at the University of the Arts in Belgrade. In 1991 he went to the University of California at Santa Barbara as Visiting Professor. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year of 1997. He is represented in many private and public collections.
*My thanks go to Tommy Zyw of the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh who indicated that this present work may have come from from Michie’s scholarship year in Italy where he travelled with John Houston in 1953/43 and painted the hill towns of Orvieto and Anticoli during the winter months.
A fine gouache painting by the Scottish artist David Michie OBE, RSA showing an Italian hill village, possibly either Antioli or Orvieto. Signed, lower right, and in good condition having recently been reframed and remounted.
Measures 65 cm wide by 46.5 cm deep (90 cm by 73 cm in is frame and mount).
£600