Images: bernardisantiques.com / donated by owner.

• Title(s): Unwinding the Skein (plaque on frame).
• Description: two women facing each other, sitting in a piece of open land backed by trees, a pink-flowered bush behind them, the woman on the left in a white shawl and red skirt and holding a ball of wool, the woman on the right in a dark dress and with a skein of wool stretched between her raised hands.
• Media: “painted on a thick wood board” (description on vendor web site).
• Dimensions: canvas 13 x 15 in. / frame 18 x 20 in (vendor web site).
• Signature/date/other text: Signed bottom right “ALS”; plaque attached to bottom of frame “Unwinding the Skein / ANNIE LOUISA SWYNNERTON, A.R.A. / 1945 ~ 1933″.
• History:
  • Date? – Signed bottom right ‘ALS’.
  • 2018 – With vendor Bernardi’s Antiques, Toronto, sold Feb 2019 or earlier for $2,400.
• Location: private collection.

On the right of the painting, two-fifths of the way up, there appears to be the edge of another dress, also red, of a third figure, the canvas having been cut down. Canvas has been applied to the back of the board, apparently in preparation for another painting. The hair on the right-hand figure appears to be heavily over-painted and she may originally have been wearing a hat. (Comments by owner.)

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Many thanks to the owner for images donated and observations on the work.

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