BLUE SEASCAPE.

Images: www.mallams.co.uk.

  • Title(s): Blue Seascape (Mallams, 2021).
  • Description: Seascape oil sketch, sand with pebbles or shells indicated in the foreground.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Mallams, 2021).
  • Dimensions: “39.8 x 50cm” (Mallams, 2021).
  • Signature/date/other text: None visible on exposed canvas.
  • History:
    • Date? – One of three works by Annie known to have been in the undated “A Painter’s Choice” exhibition, the others being Study of hands and Gipsy Girl.
    • 2021 May 26 – Auctioned Mallams, Oxford, lot 169, “This came to Mallams from a deceased estate, having originally been owned by Sir Gerald Kelly and then the Grafton Gallery in London … thence by descent”, sold: £10,000.
  • Location: Private collection.

Labels on back:

  1. “Exhibition A PAINTER’S CHOICE / Artist ANNIE SWYNNERTON / Title Blue Seascape”.
  2. “Exhibition arranged by the / ART EXHIBITIONS BUREAU / 6½ Suffolk Street / Pall Mall East, London, S.W.1.”.
  3. (overlying label 1) “new grafton gallery 49 CHURCH ROAD . BARNES . LONDON SW13 9HH / Telephone 01-748 8850 / Artist: Annie Swynnerton A.R.A. Date 1844-1933 / Title: Blue Seascape / Medium: oil on canvas / Size: 15½” x 19½” / Provenance: Sir Gerald Kelly / Exhibited: Art Exhibition Bureau, / ‘A Painter’s Choice’ // Alison and Peter Marston / Catalpa / Grimms Hill, Great Missenden / Bucks”.
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  5. “J T BURNS & CO LTD / FINE ART PICTURE FRAMERS AND GILDERS / 20-24 Emerald Street London WC1 / Telephone 01-242 7026/3156”.
  6. “… NE … / EMP … E…HIE … / OWNER … / ARTIST Mrs … / TITLE “Seasc… / SIZE …”. (Only small fragments od this label visible.)

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