Lot 49 : Elevation of proposed Studio in Glebe Place and Upper Cheyne Walk, London

Charles Rennie Mackintosh - 1868-1928

Auction Location: United Kingdom - 2002
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By Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1920 Pencil and watercolour and traces of bodycolour on paper, partially squared in pencil 15 1/8in. x 13 3/8in. (38.4cm. x 34cm.) Inscribed Elevation of Cheyne House Garden. PROVENANCE Mary Newbery Sturrock, Edinburgh Dr. Thomas Howarth, Toronto Christie's London, 17th February 1994, Lot 79 EXHIBITION Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Works from the Collection of Professor Thomas Howarth, Toronto, 1967, Cat. No. 67 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) Memorial Exhibition, Toronto, 18 November-31 December 1978, Cat. No. 159 Spring'94, The Fine Art Society, London, Cat. No. 52 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow Museums Travelling Exhibition, 25th May 1996 - 12th October 1997, p. 366, Cat. No. 244 Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, Travelling Exhibition in Japan, September 2000 - February 2001, p. 136, Cat. No. 139 NOTES In 1920 Mackintosh was commissioned by Miss Anita Berry of the Arts League of Service to prepare plans for a block of studio flats for a site in Chelsea bounded by Oakley Street, Glebe Place and Upper Cheyne Walk. In addition he received commissions from Arthur Cadogan Blunt, Harold Squire and Francis Derwent Wood for adjacent studios in Glebe Place. All of those projects were dogged by disputes with the various authorities which had an interest in the new buildings and eventually only Squire's studio was built, to a somewhat different design from that shown in the many drawings for the project which survive. The Arts League of Service block is shown on the left of this drawing, with the garden elevation of Squire's studio on the right. Dozens of other drawings for the project are contained in the Mackintosh Estate at the Hunterian Art Gallery, but few have the charm of the detailing of this drawing.