Beschreibung:

Annie French
The Fairy Tale Lady
212 x 260mm. (frame 500 x 516mm.), pen and ink, watercolour, and gouache, heightened with gold, SIGNED, DATED AND, WITH AN ADDITIONAL PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO THE LOWER RIGHT ("To Lydia from Annie, Christmas 1927"), additionally signed by the artist on lower right-hand corner, framed and glazed
A fine original illustration by Annie French (1872-1965), a prominent member of the Glasgow Girls art movement, whose influences also included Aubrey Beardsley and Charles Rennie Mackintosh Unlike her contemporary Jessie M. King (for whom see lots 202 and 293), French's "interest in art was encouraged by her family, and she was a student at the Glasgow School of Art from 1886 to 1889. She taught at the school's department of ceramic decoration from 1908 to 1912" (ODNB).
PROVENANCE:from the collection of the late Colin White
EXHIBITION:Heath Robinson Museum, "Fairies in Illustration", 30 November 2019-23 February 2020
LITERATURE:"Glasgow Girls", ODNB