The Way of Colour: Pictures from the Harrison Collection

The Way of Colour: Pictures from the Harrison Collection

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George Leslie Hunter

A Cottage near Largo, Fife

Lot Closed

March 17, 01:13 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

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.

Alex Reid. & Lefevre Ltd., Glasgow, where acquired by Major Ion R. Harrison and thence by family descent to the present owner

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