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GEORGE LESLIE HUNTER | The Bay, Juan-Les-Pins
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description
- George Leslie Hunter
- The Bay, Juan-Les-Pins
- signed l.r.: L Hunter
- oil on canvas
- 46 by 56cm., 18 by 22in.
Provenance
Pearson & Westergaard, Ltd., Glasgow, where purchased by Major Ion R. Harrison and thence by descent
Exhibited
London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Three Scottish Painters, 1939, no.4;
Glasgow, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Leslie Hunter Exhibition, 1942, no.74:
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Leslie Hunter, 1877-1931, 1942, no.92;
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, The Thistle Foundation, Pictures from a Private Collection, 1951, no.72;
Edinburgh, Saltire Society, Four Scottish Colourists, 1952, no.60;
Rothesay, Rothesay Museum, Arts Council for Scotland, Paintings by Leslie Hunter, 1955, no.20
Glasgow, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Leslie Hunter Exhibition, 1942, no.74:
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Leslie Hunter, 1877-1931, 1942, no.92;
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, The Thistle Foundation, Pictures from a Private Collection, 1951, no.72;
Edinburgh, Saltire Society, Four Scottish Colourists, 1952, no.60;
Rothesay, Rothesay Museum, Arts Council for Scotland, Paintings by Leslie Hunter, 1955, no.20
Literature
B. Smith and J. Marriner, Hunter Revisited, The Life and Art of Leslie Hunter, Edinburgh, 2012, illustrated pl.121, p.142
Catalogue Note
'Everyone must choose his own way, and mine will be the way of colour.'
George Leslie Hunter
quoted in, T. J. Honeyman, Introducing Leslie Hunter, London, 1937. p.97
'Hunter always maintained that he was not painting for today but for fifty years hence...Having lived twenty-five years with several of them I find that Hunter's prophecy is coming true.'
Major Ion R. Harrison
As I Remember Them in T.J. Honeyman, Three Scottish Colourists, Edinburgh, 1950, p.120
George Leslie Hunter
quoted in, T. J. Honeyman, Introducing Leslie Hunter, London, 1937. p.97
'Hunter always maintained that he was not painting for today but for fifty years hence...Having lived twenty-five years with several of them I find that Hunter's prophecy is coming true.'
Major Ion R. Harrison
As I Remember Them in T.J. Honeyman, Three Scottish Colourists, Edinburgh, 1950, p.120