James McNaught

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James McNaught

Born in Glasgow in 1948, James is the only son of parents who worked as carpet designers at Templeton’s Carpet Factory in Glasgow. His earliest memory of a painting is by Picasso of a lady whom he firmly believed to be his mother. James enjoyed drawing and painting at school but not much else and in 1966, without any formal qualifications, he was accepted unconditionally at Glasgow School of Art, where he stayed until 1970, and where, he says he would have been happy to stay for the rest of his life.

James paints in gouache with a delicate touch and a faultless technique. His paintings have an obsessive quality, they are witty and enigmatic and depict an erotic, fetishistic intensely private world. He admires many artists, in particular George Grosz, Hans Bellmer, Chaim Soutine and Paul Delvaux.

Now retired from teaching he can devote himself to the strange worlds of Fernando Rey and his associates.

James McNaught

A small La Grande Bouffe

gouache 19.5 x 27.5 cms
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A MEMORY OF GEORGETTE MAGRITTE

gouache 26.5 x 43 cms
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GHOST SHIP

gouache 15 x 20 cms
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Landing

gouache 15 x 21 cms
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THE DREAM OF THE HAT CHECK GIRL

gouache 29 x 35 cms
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THE LAST JOURNEY OF FERNANDO REY

gouache 12 x 20 cms
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THE SECRET DEPARTURE

gouache 21 x 41 cms
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Waiting for Esmeralda

gouache 15 x 21cm
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The Confused Memory of Fernando Rey

gouache 21 x 15cm
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Unreliable Memories of a City

watercolour and gouache 19 x 46cm
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The Lost City

watercolour and gouache 23 x 36cm
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The Return of Esmeralda

watercolour and gouache 18 x 64cm
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La Grande Buffe

pencil 41 x 82cm
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Silent City

gouache 20 x 20cm
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Street of Trams

gouache 20 x 20cm
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Confused Memory

gouache 20 x 20cm
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The Little Secret of Rene Magritte

watercolour and gouache 15 x 21cm
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Memory of Esmeralda

gouache 22 x 41 cm
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Looking for the Hatcheck Girl

gouache 20.5 x 40 cm
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Unseen Noises

Watercolour 19 x 26cm
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The Melancholic Chambermaid

watercolour and goauche 28 x 15cm
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City of Lost Memories

Watercolour 18 x 25cm
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City of Lost Churches

watercolour and gouache 15 x 21cm
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The Seduction of Esmeralda

watercolour and gouache 15 x 21cm
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Memory of an Empty House (reserved)

watercolour and gouache 15 x 21cm
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The Crushed Violin

gouache  15 x 21cm
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The Shadow that hid Three Elephants

gouache  15 x 21cm
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The City of Lost Pianos

gouache and w/c 20 x 26cm
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The Caress of the Piano Teacher

gouache and w/c 29 x 36cm
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The Custard Pie of Dr Caligari

gouache and w/c 23 x 17cm
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Memory of the Bald Soprano

gouache 14 x 20cm
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The Pointless Memory of Fernando Rey

gouache 14 x 20cm
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The Chambermaid who lost her sense of reality

goauche 21 x 15cm
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Fernando Rey caresses the shadow of Georgette Magritte

gouache 15 x 21cm
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A Group of Elegant Ladies caress a Merangue

gouache 15 x 21cm
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The Perfect Mistake

gouache  15 x 21cm
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Fernando Rey awaiting Ariadne

gouache 25 x 45cm
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BADONI BELLANI BENAZZOLI

gouache 31 x 24cm
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Every Caress of the Chambermaid Survives

gouache 15 x 30cm
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Monsieur Cul and Madame Con

gouache 21 x 31cm
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Sugarsticky Girl Shovelling Scoopfuls of Cream

gouache 34 x 26cm
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Zazzu and her Petticoats of Scarlet

gouache 28 x 34cm
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Woman in Blue Armchair

gouache 15 x 29cm
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A Group of Elegant Ladies Caressing a Piano

gouache 20 x 26cm
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The Celluloid Mistress

gouache 22 x 31cm
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Have the Valet Pour the Perfume on the Crushed Violin

gouache  29 x 75cm
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The Melancholia of Ariadne

gouache and w/c  12 x 33cm
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Roger & Michael meet to admire a birthday gift, each believing the other to be of a higher rank

gouache and watercolour 10 x 10cm
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Evidence of a Group of Refined Ladies

gouache and watercolour 10 x 10cm
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Unreliable Memory of a Birthday Party

gouache and watercolour 10 x 10cm
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