Raccommodage des Filets, St. Tropez

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Sine Mackinnon was born in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland. She studied at the Slade School in London (1918-20 and 1921-24) where she was taught by Henry Tonks. Aftewards, she moved to Paris and attended classes at the École des Beaux Arts where she met leading French painters including Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy. She had two exhibitions in Paris and continued to work between Paris and London. Mackinnon’s first British solo show was held at the Goupil Gallery in London (1928). In 1928 she married the painter, Rupert Granville-Fordham. A year later Mackinnon held a joint exhibition with Stephen Bone at the Fine Art Society, London, exhibiting paintings of Connemara.

Places

France, Var, Saint-Tropez

Subjects

barrow, topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, tree, man, public square, pavement, house, shutters, drainpipe, fishing net

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Sine Mackinnon (1901 - 1996)

Title

Raccommodage des Filets, St. Tropez

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 38.50 cm, width: 46.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Ernest Brown & Phillips, March 1950

Inscription

br: SINE MACKINNON

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in December 1949

GAC number

1077