Bidspirit auction | M.I. MacKenzie 20th Century Oil

M.I. MacKenzie 20th Century Oil on Canvas Pastoral Landscape - A 20th-century impressionistic oil painting on canvas depicting cattle grazing in a rural landscape. The composition features a herd of brown and white cows in a vibrant green meadow under a heavy, textured sky filled with white and gray clouds. A small farmhouse and outbuildings are visible in the middle distance to the left, while a cluster of tall trees stands to the right against a backdrop of rolling hills. The artist has employed expressive, visible brushwork to create texture in the foreground grass and the atmospheric cloud formations. The work is signed in dark blue paint at the lower left corner as M.I. MACKENZIE. The verso of the canvas bears a printed black manufacturer stamp for C. ROBERSON & CO. LTD. located at 99. LONG ACRE LONDON. A partially torn white paper label with illegible handwritten ink is affixed to the upper center of the reverse. The painting is housed in a gilt wooden frame featuring a decorative inner bead and a distressed metallic finish.