Lot 68: * AR Madeline Green (British, 1884-1947) Miss Brown

Madeline Green (British, 1884-1947)
Miss Brown
signed with initials 'M.G.' (lower left), inscribed 'MISS BROWN/£25/M GREEN/40 THE MALL' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
46 x 26cm (18 1/8 x 10 1/4in).
Footnotes

Provenance
with M Boswell & Son, Norwich, 1953
Purchased from the above
Private collection, Switzerland

Exhibited
Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute, 1937, no.537

In the present lot the artist has used herself as model, here wearing the distinctive chequered scarf which also appears in a number of self-portraits; she has placed herself sitting in front of a window, a technique used to great effect in many of her works, such as The Velvet Jacket, sold in these rooms 21 January 2015, lot 124, and Check scarf, sold in these rooms 11 January 2006, lot 506.