OLEANDER.

Images: Sotheby’s catalogue.

  • Title(s): Oleander (multiple sources).
  • Description: a young woman, shoulders turned three-quarters to the viewer, head in profile, holding a sprig of flowering oleander, steps and architectural features in the background.
  • Media: oil on panel.
  • Dimensions: 27.3 x 19.5 cm.
  • Signature/date/other text: signed and dated 1883.
  • History:
    • 1883 – Signed “Annie L Robinson / 1883” on front canvas.
    • 1883 – Exhibited Manchester Society of Women Painters ‘Third Annual Exhibition’ (The Manchester Evening News, 23 Nov 1883; The Guardian, 22 Nov 1883).
    • 1999 – Auctioned Phillip’s, Chester, 4 Mar, lot 760, “Signed dated / Oil/canvas / 27 x 19 cm / Illustrated on page 61 of the catalog”, sold: hammer £2,500. (ArtPrice.)
    • 1999 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, 9 Jun. (Reference?)
    • 2002 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, London, 2 Dec, lot 103, “Oil/panel / 27.5 x 20 cm / Signed dated «Annie Caption Robinson» lower right / Illustrated on page 76 of the catalog”, sold: hammer £6,000, premium £7,170. (ArtPrice.)
  • Location: ?

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