"La Mort Parfumee" 1921

s.d. b.r. "MARGARET / MACDONALD / MACKINTOSH / 1921"; inscr. on verso "Mrs Macintosh [sic]"; label on verso "JAMES BOURLET & SONS, Ltd., / Fine Art Packers, Frame Makers. / A17190 / 17 & 18, NASSAU STREET, MORTIMER STREET, W. / 'Phone MUSEUM 1871" CRE MACKINTOSH, Margaret Macdonald; (English; 1864-1933) "La Mort Parfumee" (perfumed death), was one of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh's last works. The abstraction of the composition, its richly sombre colour scheme, and the dramatic imagery evoking Egyptian burial rites, make it one of her most powerful watercolours. 'The Glasgow Herald' (17 February 1921) called it an 'Egyptian mummy rite' when it was exhibited in Edinburgh.

Collection

Hunterian Items

Inventory Number

2928724

Title

"La Mort Parfumee" 1921

Object Type

PhysicalObject

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