1. Mackintosh watercolour
Estimate £30,000-£50,000 Sold £112,700
When we think of the designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) we conjure up images of his masterpiece, The Glasgow School of Art, or The Hill House in Helensburgh. These are now iconic buildings that were created when Mackintosh was at the height of his powers, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
What we're less familiar with is his artistic output, a skill he honedwatercolours, from hedgerow willow catkins and sorrel to garden fuchsias and petunias. The study, created in 1915, was probably inspired by a pressed specimen collected on a walk and has been in a private collection for over 40 years. The rare pencil and watercolour work was hotly contested by Mackintosh connoisseurs at Lyon & Turnbull's Design Since 1860 sale.
