£378
Auction: 26 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Signed lower right, signed, dated and titled to label verso, oil on canvas
39cm x 29cm (15.25in x 11.5in)
Hubert Cook (1901-1966) was a painter, printmaker and teacher whose work is held in the collection of Museum & Art Swindon.
In his autobiography ‘Struggling with Paint’ Ossory Dunlop declared that ‘a picture is finished when you have expressed all you can say, and sometimes perhaps just a little less than all you can or would say… leave something to the thought and imagination of the onlooker… leave off painting whilst the emotional energy is hot’ (Ossory Dunlop, London, 1956, p.75).