5th Dec, 2021 12:00

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction

 
  Lot 601
 

UNTITLED (8.202), AN OIL BY MARGARET MELLIS

* MARGARET MELLIS (BRITISH 1914-2009),
UNTITLED (8.202)
oil on unprimed canvas, titled label verso
image size 12cm x 12cm, overall size 34cm x 32cm
Mounted, framed and under glass.
Artist's studio stamp verso, bearing the number 8.202
Note: Margaret Mellis was born in China to Scottish parents and moved to Britain when she was one year old and shortly after the First World War broke out. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art under the tutelage of S. J. Peploe alongside classmates Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and William Gear, and won a scholarship in 1933 to study in Paris. In 1939, Mellis moved to St Ives with her husband, the writer Adrian Stokes. There, she became a member of the St Ives group of artists and an important figure in the growing modernist movement. It was here that Mellis began to produce collages and constructions of plywood, driftwood and found objects, as well as small abstract paintings. In the 1960s and 1970s she continued experimenting with these constructions and reliefs, working with colour. Mellis left the St Ives area in 1946 after the breakdown of her marriage and subsequent divorce. She later married Francis Davison, also an artist, and became a mentor to the young Damien Hirst.

 

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Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £450 - £650


Condition Report

Condition is good overall, with no visible signs of restoration, damage, or known issues. Provenance is from a Private Scottish Collection. 

 
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