ID 1251400
Lot 145 | The Annunciation
Estimate value
€ 20 000 – 30 000
. Glasgow, 1896. Lightly embossed and gilded aluminium plate panel, with insertion of emerald green and ruby red coloured stones. Mounted on original wooden frame. Signed and dated on the bottom left. Coeval paper label on the back. (cm 24.5x114.5; frame cm 45x142.5) (defects and minor losses)
Provenance
Private collection, Italy; Ettore de Maria Bergler, purchased at the Biennale di Venezia, 1899
Exhibition
1896, London, Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1897, Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
1897, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition
1899, Venice Biennale
1903, Palermo, Camera per Giovanni Signore
Literature
Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, Catalogue of the Fifth Exhibition, The New Gallery, 121 Regent Street, London, 1896, p. 123;
The Studio, IX, 1896, p. 202, repr. p. 203;
III esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia. 22 aprile - 31 ottobre 1899. Catalogo illustrato, Ferrari, Venezia 1899, p. 60;
Thomas Howarth, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement, 2nd ed. 1977, pp. 37-8;
Pamela Reekie, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh 1864-1933, 1983, catalogue of an exhibition at Hunterian Art Gallery;
Pamela Robertson (ed), Doves and Dreams: the art of Frances Macdonald and James Herbert McNair, 2006, p.108;
Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of the Four, 2017, pp. 87, 88, 110, fig. 89;
Marie Tavinor, “Wonderful Revelations”: Scottish Art at the Venice Biennale and Strategies of Innovation, 1897-1899, in "Journal for Art Market Studies", vol. 2, n. 8, november 2018, pp. 6-13
Artist: | Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (1864 - 1933) |
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Auction house category: | Decor & 20th Century Arts & Design |
Artist: | Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (1864 - 1933) |
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Auction house category: | Decor & 20th Century Arts & Design |
Address of auction |
Il Ponte Casa d'Aste Via Pontaccio 12 20121 Milano Italy |
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