WOMAN IN A RED CAPE

Pen, ink and watercolour on paper. An orginal painting of a woman wearing a red cape and a full-skirted dress patterned with red flowers standing in front of green foliage and a patterned background. The reverse is blank, with 'AF 19' written in pencil in tiny characters along the bottom. The sheet measures 13 cm x 19.5 cm. In very good condition, the drawing bright and crisp, the very edges are slightly toned.

A beautiful drawing by the Scottish artist Annie French (1872-1965), featuring her classic subjects of romantically dressed women and unique floral motifs. French attended and later taught at the Glasgow School of Art alongside her contemporaries Margaret and Frances MacDonald and Jessie M. King at a time when Scottish art and design was enjoying a period of particular innovation and renown. The Glasgow School's distinctive collective style helped to shape the aesthetics of the British Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements at the turn of the twentieth century and beyond. Provenance: Christies Scotland, 9th April 1981, lot 19; Private collection.