Margaret Macdonald ( Tipton 1864 - Chelsea 1933 )

"The Annunciation" . 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

Estimate € 20,000 - 30,000

Sold € 140,000