Lot 107
FERNAND MAILLAUD (FRENCH 1862-1948)
UNDERNEATH THE TREES
Auction: 10 February 2011 at 11:00 GMT
£1,500
Description
Signed, oil on canvas laid down
Dimensions
44cm x 54cm (17.25in x 21.25in)
Footnote
Provenance: Sir James Morton, Craigiehall, Edinburgh and by family descent.
Literature: Morton, J., 'Three Generations in a Family Textile Firm', London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971, pages 288
Note: Maillaud trained women in his local village of Issoudun to interpret his paintings into tapestry embroideries and struck up a friendship with Morton whose firm Alexander Morton & Co. was one of the largest textile manufacturing firms in the world at that time.