ALEXANDER SANDY MOFFAT RSA, OBE (BRITISH, b.1943), 'THE CONTEST', CONTEMPORARY PASTEL ON PAPER, (44 x 59cm). NOTES Sandy Moffat is a painter, author, a Royal Scottish Academician and holder of an OBE and currently President of The Essential School of Painting. Sandy’s works are held in numerous collections including The National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Arts Council of Great Britain and in The Yale Centre of British Art. Former Head of Painting at the Glasgow School of Art Sandy Moffat is highly credited with encouraging and steering a generation of painters at The GSA including Ken Currie and Adrian Wiszniewski. He has had solo exhibitions in numerous places including “A View of the Portrait” at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, an exhibition at The Press Club Warsaw, “Images from Three Decades” at The Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh and very recently “Paintings as Arguments” at The Peacocks Visual Arts Gallery in Aberdeen. He has written and contributed to numerous books and publications including the critically acclaimed ‘Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland’ and its sequel published in 2014 ‘Arts of Independence’. PROVENANCE: Gifted by the artist to ESOP.