Lot 100
  • 100

Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S.

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Two Race Horses at the Start
  • signed A. J. Munnings (lower right)
  • oil on panel
  • 9 3/4 by 14 in.
  • 24.7 by 35.5 cm

Provenance

Richard Green, London (by 1973)
The Essex Gallery of Sport, Inc., Far Hills, New Jersey
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, June 6, 1985, lot 285, illustrated (as Sketch of Two Horses in a Landscape)
Frost and Reed, London (by 1985)
Acquired from the above, 1986

Exhibited

Saratoga Springs, New York, Sixth Annual Exhibition of Fine Sporting Paintings, July 31-August 21, 1985, no. 1 (lent by Frost & Reed, as Study for "Going Out")

Condition

This painting is on panel and there is a 4" horizontal crack in the lower left, and a 1 1/2" hairline crack in the upper right. The panel is mounted to a wood support. Under UV, a dime-sized touch-up fluoresces in the upper left.
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