Lot 13
  • 13

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • `Certosa di Pavia': a sketch
  • inscribed in watercolour 'Intersia Panel, Certosa di Pavia,½ Full Size.'
  • 24.7cm. high by 33.5cm. wide;
  • 9¾in., 1ft. 1¼in.
pencil and watercolour, depicting a masonary detail from the medieval charterhouse in Pavia

Provenance

Formerly in the Dr. Thomas Howarth Collection.

Exhibited

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1929), Memorial Exhibition, 18th November - 31st December, 1978, No. 70.

Literature

Roger Billcliffe, Mackintosh Watercolours, London, 1978, No. 33b.

Catalogue Note

In 1890 Mackintosh was awarded the Alexander 'Greek' Thomson Travelling Scholarship which allowed him to visit Italy the following year. The last entry in the diary of Mackintosh's Italian Tour indicates that he left Milan for Pavia on the 9th July 1891.