MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
Zanzibar
signed 'M Metcalfe' (lower right) and titled (lower left)
watercolour
31 x 23cm
(unframed)
Exhibited
Natal Society of Artists
together with six other watercolour by the same hand; The Old Thorn Tree, Zomba Plateau Road, signed, 23.5 x 32cm; Lake Shilwa from Zomba Plateau, signed, 44 x 27cm; Tarmac, Ntondwe, signed, 26.5 x 22.5cm; Fire in the Blue Gums, signed, 25.5 x 36cm; Smoulder, signed, 24 x 34cm; and Drakensburg, signed, 24.5 x 34.5cm, (all unframed)
(7)
ARR
| Estimate: |
£50 - £100
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Hammer price:
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£20 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Provenance
The artist, thence by descent to her grandson;
Private collection, UK
Footnote
Margaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks alongside Gwen and Augustus John. She then set up and ran a small commercial art studio in London. When she married, she moved to Nyasaland (Malawi) with her husband who worked for the Agriculture Department of the Colonial Office. They had a small farm of their own where Metcalfe stayed until moving back to the UK in the early 1960s. Throughout her long life she produced a large and varied body of work, much of it recording the people and landscapes of her beloved African home. She regularly exhibited her work both in Malawi and South Africa.
The purpose of this sale of work is to raise money for the charity “Mary’s Meals” so as to provide free lunches for schoolchildren in Malawi.
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