Margaret Geddes
Reading, 1949
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Signed and dated
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Provenance
The Artist's Estate.
Note: Geddes studied under George Elmslie Owen at the Westminster School of Art in the 1930s - Owen himself had studied under Léger in Paris. During the 1940s Geddes developed an interest in cubism and produced a number of figurative works in a cubist style before turning exclusively to abstraction in the 1950s.
Exhibitions
Margaret Geddes, The Woodlands Art Gallery, London, 1998, cat. no. 8
Literature
Margaret Geddes, Denys J. Wilcox, St. Ives Printing & Publishing Company, 1998, p. 68