JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 12 March 2024 - 10:00 AM start

Raymond McIntyre (1879-1933), Cobbled Street with Horse and Cart c.1913,

Lot Details

watercolour, signed, 260 x 200mm. Illustrated: Art NZ No. 10, 1978, page 38. Note: Born in Christchurch, Raymond McIntyre was one of seven children in an artistic and musical family. He was taught by Alfred Walsh at the Canterbury School of Art and received a bronze medal for a life study. Sharing a studio with Sydney Lough Thompson and Leonard Booth, he exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts from1899 to 1910, In 1909, McIntyre left for England and over the next fifteen years produced work as a portrait, figure and landscape painter. McIntyre was very much influenced by Cezanne, Matisse and Modigliani and was closely associated with the Camden Town and London groups of artists. McIntyre is best known for his superb painting and acute awareness of contemporary trends in European art of the early twentieth century