George Leslie Hunter
Lobster on a Blue Plate
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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 Ma🦩rrin♍er 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
Glasgow, Alex Reid. & Lefevre Ltd., Memorial Exhibition, 1932, no.40
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, The Thistle Foundation, Pictures from a Private Collection, March 1951, no.60
Edinburgh and London, The Fine Art Society, Three Scottish Colourists, February - April 1977, no.88
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, Royal Glasgow Institute for the Fine Arts, Leslie Hunter Centenary, 1977, no.373
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, The Thistle Foundation, Pictures from a Private Collection, March 1951, no.60
Edinburgh and London, The Fine Art Society, Three Scottish Colourists, February - April 1977, no.88
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, Royal Glasgow Institute for the Fine Arts, Leslie Hunter Centenary, 1977, no.373