Margaret L. Duncan

(British 1906 – 1979)

A Child Playing with a Hoop, Accompanied by Its Parents, a Village Beyond, c. late-1920s

watercolour and pencil on paper

signed in pencil lower right ‘M.L.Duncan’ and inscribed to mount ‘Jean Richard Bloch’

16 x 11.7 cm.

(framed 25 x 19.5 cm.)

in a period silvered frame

Provenance

The Studio of the Artist;

With Liss Llewellyn, 2021, by whom sold to

Private Collection, UK until 2026.

Literature

Llewellyn, Sacha, et al., Women Only Works on Paper, 2021, p.55 (illus.).

Frustratingly little is known of Margaret Duncan, a Liverpudlian artist who taught art at a girls' independent boarding school, Huyton College, in Liverpool. Some satirical drawings from the artist’s estate including the present work were included in Liss Llewellyn’s catalogue, ‘Women Only: Works on Paper’, in 2021.