26th Feb, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
Malcolm Drummond (1880-1945)
Girl sitting at a window
Oil on canvas, 59cm by 49cm
Provenance: With Salander O'Reilly Gallieries Inc, New York
The Maclean Gallery, London
Christie’s Sale, 6 November 1981, lot 56, sold for £750
Sotheby’s Sale, 16 Nobember 1978, lot 65, sold for £850
We are grateful to Dr Wendy Baron for her assistance in catalouging this piece. She dates it as circa 1910-12.
Slight stretcher shadow. Diagonal crease to canvas from centre of top edge across to approximately 5cm down from top corner. Exposed areas of the canvas by design. Canvas slightly loose on stretcher. The odd brush bristle within the paint- in particular to the girl's chin. Has been cleaned. Some very sporadic areas of re touching, in particular to the top of the crease top edge and to the left of the girl's shoulder in a straight line, also the odd area lower right.
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