Lot 144
LESLIE HUNTER (1877-1934)
A STILL LIFE OF PINK ROSES AND FRUIT IN A FAMILLE ROSE BOWL
£38,000
Auction: 8 December 2000 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Signed, oil on board,
55cm(22in) x 45cm(18in)
Footnote
Provenance: Lord Goold
Note:The development of Hunter's painting of still-lives followed anyhing bu a straight line.His early Dutch inspired black background works and the late loosely structured compositiions in which form and paint are handled in a fluid, almost liquid manner serve as identifiable post and antequem. The intervening decade however is not so clear-cut. The strong, bright colours of this still-life and its flattened perpespective suggest a date of c.1923-25. The familiar studio motifs of pink roses lying at the foot of the lug-handled bronze vase and the famille-rose bowl tipped up to reveal and orange and lemon tend to confirm this.
Note:The development of Hunter's painting of still-lives followed anyhing bu a straight line.His early Dutch inspired black background works and the late loosely structured compositiions in which form and paint are handled in a fluid, almost liquid manner serve as identifiable post and antequem. The intervening decade however is not so clear-cut. The strong, bright colours of this still-life and its flattened perpespective suggest a date of c.1923-25. The familiar studio motifs of pink roses lying at the foot of the lug-handled bronze vase and the famille-rose bowl tipped up to reveal and orange and lemon tend to confirm this.
