Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
Property from the Estate of Sir Peter Hutchison
Auction Closed
November 20, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
AUGUSTUS LUNN
1905-1986
GALE WARNING
signed and dated /38; also signed and inscribed on the reverse; further signed, titled and inscribed on a label attached to the reverse
pencil and tempera on board
105 by 65cm.; 41¼ by 25¾in.
Peter Nahum, London
His sale, Christie's South Kensington, The Poetry of Crisis: The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant-Garde Art, 1930-51, 15th November 2006, lot 93, where acquired by the late owner
London, New Burlington Galleries, London Group. Thirty-seventh Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, November - December 1938, cat. no.180 (as Coast Defences);
London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Second United Artists' Exhibition, in aid of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross and St. John Fund, January - March 1942, cat. no.526;
Bournemouth, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works by Eminent Livings Artists, March - May 1945, cat. no.939;
London, Michael Parkin Fine Art, Augustus Lunn, March - April 1985, cat. no.19 (as Coastguards Look Out);
Punkaharju, Finland, Retretti Art Centre, Surrealism in Visual Arts and Film, 16th May - 13th September 1987, p.144 (as Coastguards Look Out);
Chichester, Festival Exhibition, The Tudor Room of the Bishop's Palace, Sea, Sail and Shore, June - July 1991, cat. no.29.
