Charles Rennie Mackintosh

shown in elevation and plan

Commissioned directly from the artist by Miss Catherine Cranston for the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow, circa 1898
Herbert Smith, Esq. 
Dr. Thomas Howarth, United Kingdom
Christie's London, The Dr. Thomas Howard Collection, Important Works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret and Frances Macdonald and Herbert MacNair, February 17, 1994, lot 99
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), Memorial Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, November 18-December 31, 1978, no. 132
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Architect and Designer (1868-1928) from the Collection of Dr. Thomas Howarth, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in co-operatin with His Excellency, Allan Gotlieb, Ambassador of Canada, Washington, June 26-August 30, 1985

Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs, New York, 2009, pp. 56 (for a period photograph showing the realized umbrella, hat and coat stand in situ in the Argyle Street Team Rooms) and 64, no. 1898.47 (for a realized umbrella, hat and coat stand),  D1898.48 (for a related design drawing) and D1898.49 (for the present lot illustrated)

Overall good condition. The paper has uneven edges and losses, the edges of the calque are in tact. The work is attached to the mat backing at all four corners with mounting tape, verso. At approximately 1 1/2 inch from right edge of the paper there is a 1 inch diagonal tear with an associated loss; the tear extends 1/4 inch into the calque, visible in current matting and in the catalogue illustration. The paper with another tear in left edge approximately 3 1/2 inches from the lower right corner measuring 1 inch in length (vertical) and and extending 1/4 inch into the calque, visible in current matting and in the catalogue illustration. The calque with a hard flattened crease in the extreme lower left corner and two hard horizontal creases extending through the work just below the center about 1 inch apart with some associated discoloration. The calque with handling marks, creases and surface dirt throughout. The paper and to a lesser extent the calque show signs of foxing. The paper with some discolorations, verso. With some time-staining and evidence of mat burn in the margins. A delicate rendering by Mackintosh for the Argyle Tea Rooms.
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