Madge Tennent
American · 1889–1972 · Painter
Madge Tennent was a British-born American artist known for her monumental oil paintings of Native Hawaiian women. Born in Dulwich, London, raised in Cape Town, and trained at… (Wikipedia)
Record prices
The Red HolokūBonhams · $231,640≈ £172,814≈ €203,086Sign up to see
Rose Kokua (Portrait of Young Hawaiian)Bonhams · $152,900≈ £113,201≈ €130,751Sign up to see
Lily, Hawaiian DancerBonhams · $114,800≈ £86,238≈ €98,931Sign up to see
Madge Tennent’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
Madge Tennent was a British-born American artist known for her monumental oil paintings of Native Hawaiian women. Born in Dulwich, London, raised in Cape Town, and trained at the Académie Julian in Paris under William-Adolphe Bouguereau, she settled in Honolulu in 1923 and devoted the remaining five decades of her career to Hawaiian subjects.
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Also known as Madeline Cook Tennent, Madeline Grace Tennent
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