Madge Tennent Large Framed Ink & Watercolor Portrait Of A Woman No Reserve For Sale

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This watercolor and ink (mixed media) provenance includes a major sale house.Well, well, well...look at what the cat has dragged in...a 1-of-a-kind Madge Tennent ink and watercolor mixed media! As many of you know, Tennent may be the most important female artist to ever work in Hawaii. Her artwork is in many prestigious collections, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D. C.), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London)Being well dressed, I believe this portrait may be of an important Hawaiian or Polynesian woman. The composition is strong being comprised of confidently executed lines, which makes this mixed media very gestural. Arguably, this is one of the largest and most finely done mixed medias that Tennent ever created.

If you are unfamiliar with Madge Tennent, I would like to share her biography from Wikipedia with you:

BIOGRAPHY and REFERENCES:

"Madge Tennent (1889 in Dulwich, London – 1972 in Honolulu) was an English artist.Born to Arthur Cook, an architect and landscape painter and his wife, Agnes, a writer. The family moved in 1894 to Cape Town, South Africa, and Madge’s parents’ efforts to promote tolerance among various races and creeds there no doubt left a lasting impression on the young Madge.

Because of Madge’s artistic promise, her family to give up their home in Cape Town so that she might study in Paris. There, she studied with William-Adolphe Bouguereau, the leading proponent of academic art. Eventually finances caused her family to move back to South Africa, where sixteen-year-old Madge led a government-sponsored art school.

Madge was also an accomplished pianist, taught by her mother, and gave regular recitals in Cape Town. One such recital was attended by a visiting military officer from New Zealand, Hugh Cowper Tennent, who was in South Africa with his regiment. After their marriage in 1915, the couple moved to New Zealand. Again Madge directed an art school, having been appointed head instructor at the Government School of Art in Woodville, the village where Madge and Hugh lived while he awaited further military orders. When orders came, Hugh was posted to France in support of the allied effort in World War I. Hugh returned from France in 1917 with a badly wounded arm. An accountant by trade, he was offered a position as treasurer to the government of British Samoa, which he chose to accept. The Tennents lived in Samoa for six years, during which time Madge was able to indulge a fascination with the native people of Polynesian descent. Madge was able to devote much of her time to drawing charcoal portraits of Samoans. In 1923, en route to England to enroll their sons in school, the Tennents stopped over in Honolulu. It was to have been a brief stop, but they soon were persuaded by members of the local cultural elite, including poet Don Blanding, to stay on. Madge was immediately taken with the Hawaiian people.

A renowned art educator as well as painter of modern figurative canvases of Hawaiian subjects, Madge Tennent had a distinguished career based primarily in Hawaii from where she sent paintings to the mainland United States for exhibitions in New York City and Chicago between 1930 and 1939. She was among the first artists to embrace native Hawaiians as a primary subject matter, whom she depicted as large and robust with audacious, swirling forms and colors. Two Sisters of Old Hawaiʻi in the collection of the Hawaii State Art Museum is an example of her large paintings of Hawaiian women. Her influence was increased by her association with the Honolulu Museum of Art in its early days, where she was a frequent lecturer, and where she was included in most of the Academy’s early group shows. Madge died in Honolulu in 1972.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D. C.), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) are among the public collections holding works by Madge Tennent."

This watercolor (pink areas) on handmade, natural washi fiber paper and ink (black) on glass measures 27.5" by 39.5", with its' frame. The actual mixed media measures 24" by 36" and is pencil signed and dated "1956" by Tennent, on the lower right.

The mixed media has some dirt spots just outside of the right side of the figure's head (please enlarge the digital images of this area to see the spots). Additionally, the paper has some waviness and natural fibers, which look like brown lines. I am not certain whether the waviness is present because of how the washi paper was made or for some other reason.

The frame has some nicks/scratches. Overall, the frame is in good condition. When examining the mixed media under the ultraviolet light, I did find evidence of a previous restoration. The signature and date are original to the mixed media.
Good luck on becoming the winning buyer of this watercolor and ink mixed media by Madge Tennent.

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