The Simplon Glacier, 1922, watercolour and bodycolour on paper, signed and dated '22 lower right, signed and inscribed with title on backboard, and with old ink manuscript label giving artist's name and title of the work, with the date 1931, and bearing the name A.N. Sturt, 23 x 28 cm (9 x 11 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed Provenance: A.N. Sturt; Katherine Sturt ?; Alan Tucker, Stroud, near Cheltenham. Margaret Gere trained at Birmingham School of Art and the Slade. She regularly accompanied her half-brother, the artist Charles Gere on painting trips abroad (to France, Switzerland and Italy). Margaret Gere's oil painting Nuns on the Simplon (1923, private collection) was exhibited at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London in 1929. A similar oil of the Kaltwasser Glacier by Margaret Gere dated 1923, was recently sold by Sarah Colegrave Fine Art, London. (1)
The Simplon Glacier, 1922, watercolour and bodycolour on paper, signed and dated '22 lower right, signed and inscribed with title on backboard, and with old ink manuscript label giving artist's name and title of the work, with the date 1931, and bearing the name A.N. Sturt, 23 x 28 cm (9 x 11 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed Provenance: A.N. Sturt; Katherine Sturt ?; Alan Tucker, Stroud, near Cheltenham. Margaret Gere trained at Birmingham School of Art and the Slade. She regularly accompanied her half-brother, the artist Charles Gere on painting trips abroad (to France, Switzerland and Italy). Margaret Gere's oil painting Nuns on the Simplon (1923, private collection) was exhibited at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London in 1929. A similar oil of the Kaltwasser Glacier by Margaret Gere dated 1923, was recently sold by Sarah Colegrave Fine Art, London. (1)
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