Michaelmas Daisies, Munstead Wood, Godalming, Surrey

Details

Helen Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926)
Michaelmas Daisies, Munstead Wood, Godalming, Surrey
signed 'H. Allingham' (lower right)and with inscription 'Michaelmas Daisies/Munstead Wood, Godalming/(Miss Jekyll's Garden)' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of white and with scratching out
13¼ x 10¼ in. (33.7 x 26 cm.)

Provenance

H.J. Hill in 1984.
with Leger Galleries, London, November 1979.

Literature

Helen Allingham and S. Dick, The Cottage Homes of England, London, 1909, republished in 1984, pl. 64, opp. p. 224, illustrated in colour.

Exhibited

London, Fine Art Society, April 1913, no. 7.
Possibly London, Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours, 1914, no. 101.

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Lot Essay

S. Dick writes in 1909: 'This love of flowers is seen in the rendering of many cottage gardens...and of these studies the best of all seems to me that of the Michaelmas daisies with its background of soft greens, against which blaze the flower masses, white, pale blue, faint purple and soft reds' (op. cit., p. 282-3).

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