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

Still Life of Anemones in a Red Vase with Yellow Teacup and Apples

Lot Closed

March 17, 01:14 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

George Leslie Hunter

1877-1931

Still Life of Anemones in a Red Vase with Yellow Teacup and Apples


signed L Hunter (lower right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 51 by 61cm.; 20 by 24in.

framed: 67.5 by 76cm.; 26½ by 30in.

Executed in 1927-28.


We are grateful to Jill Marriner for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Major Ion R. Harrison and thence by family descent to the present owners
Roger Billcliffe, The Scottish Colourists, London, 1989, illustrated pl.95
Bill Smith and Jill Marriner, Hunter Revisited: The Life and Art of Leslie Hunter, Edinburgh, 2012, illustrated p.145, pl.125
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, The Thistle Foundation, Pictures from a Private Collection, March 1951, no.48
Edinburgh, City Art Centre, Edinburgh Museums & Galleries, A Life in Colour, 21 July - 14 October 2012
London, The Fleming Collection, A Life in Colour, 22 October 2012 – 9 February 2013