COUNTRY ROSE
signed with the initials EMcKK lower right; signed, inscribed and dated ‘A Rose’ / E. McKnight Kauffer / 1939 on the reverse; signed, titled and dated “Country Rose” / E. McKnight Kauffer / 1939 on the artist’s personal letter head glued to the backboard
oil on panel
27 x 21.5cm; 10 1/2 8 1/2in
40 x 35cm; 15 3/4 x 13 3/4 (framed)

Property from a Private Collector

Provenance
Sir Edward Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG, London (probably acquired from the artist in 1939; Marsh (1872-1953), was a lifelong civil servant of note, and an influential writer, translator and patron of the arts who, like McKnight Kauffer had a flat in Swan Walk, Chelsea. Counting poets Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon among his circle of friends, Marsh served as assistant private secretary to Prime Minister H.H. Asquith and was personal private secretary to Winston Churchill in virtually every office Churchill held in government. Upon his retirement in 1937 Marsh was knighted for services to government.
Sale, Arts Theatre Auction (for charity), Cambridge, c. 1950 (purchased by the family of the previous owner)