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

Lobster on a Blue Plate

Lot Closed

March 17, 01:20 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

George Leslie Hunter

1877-1931

Lobster on a Blue Plate


signed L. Hunter (lower right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 35.5 by 40.6cm.; 14 by 16in.

framed: 51 by 56cm.; 20 by 22in.

Executed in 1928.


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 4

Roger Billcliffe, The Scottish Colourists, London, 1989, illustrated, pl.96

William Hardie, Scottish Painting 1837-The Present, London, 1990, illustrated, pl. 94

Bill Smith and Jill Marriner, Hunter Revisited: The Art and Life of Leslie Hunter, Edinburgh, 2012, illustrated p.149, pl.128