MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (22)
Old St Remo
signed 'M. Metcalfe' (lower right)
watercolour
38.5 x 29cm
(unframed)
together with three other watercolours of European scenes and thirteen watercolours of British scenes, the largest 33.5 x 24cm, (all unframed); and five watercolour and pencil studies of gypsies by the same hand, the largest 30.5 x 21cm, (all unframed)
(22)
ARR
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£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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