Description
signed with initials CRM, inscribed and dated in pencil lower centre right CHICKORY/ WALBERSWICK 1914, pencil and watercolour
Dimensions
24.5 x 19cm (9 3/4 x 7¾in)
Footnote
Provenance:
R.W.B Morris, executor of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh's estate, 1933
Sotheby's Belgravia, 7 November 1978, lot 162
The Fine Art Society, London
Piccadilly Gallery, London
Galleria Galatea, Milan
Sotheby's, Glasgow 'Scottish Paintings', 16th April, 1996, Lot 178
Literature:
Billcliffe, Roger 'Mackintosh Watercolours', London 1978, p. 85, catalogue 107
Note:
The Mackintoshes moved to Walberswick in 1914, first of all for a recuperative holiday, but the outbreak of war persuaded them to remain in the village for fifteen months. They first of all stayed next door to the Newberys, who had bought a semi-detached villa in the village about 1900. Mackintosh spent much of his time sketching wild flowers on the coast (an activity which was to contribute to his arrest as a suspected enemy spy in 1915). The belief that the colouring on these drawings was applied by Margaret Mackintosh is countered here by the appearance of only Mackintosh's initials while the quality and manner of the watercolour is entirely consistent with the many drawings where both his own initials and those of Margaret are included (see lot 5)