George Leslie Hunter
A Cottage near Largo, Fife
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March 17, 01:13 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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George Leslie Hunter
1877-1931
A Cottage near Largo, Fife
signed L. Hunter (lower right); also signed L. Hunter and inscribed with the artist's address (on the reverse)
watercolour and ink over pencil on paper laid on board
unframed: 50.5 by 60.5cm.; 20 by 24in.
framed: 65.5 by 75.5cm.; 25¾ by 29¾in.
Executed in 1919.
We are grateful to Jill Marriner for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, The Thistle Foundation, Pictures from a Private Collection, March 1951, no.157
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, Royal Glasgow Institute for the Fine Arts, Leslie Hunter Centenary, 1977, no.351
London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Scottish Colourists, June - September 2000, no.43
Edinburgh, City Art Centre, Edinburgh Museums & Galleries, A Life in Colour, 21 July - 14 October 2012
T J Honeyman, Three Scottish Colourists, London 1950, illustrated plate 8
Roger Billcliffe, The Scottish Colourists, London, 1989, illustrated, pl.83
Philp Long and Elizabeth Cumming, The Scottish Colourists 1900-1930, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2000, illustrated pl.43
Bill Smith and Jill Marriner, Hunter Revisited: The Art and Life of Leslie Hunter, Edinburgh, 2012, illustrated p.84, pl.63