Modern & Post-War British Art

Modern & Post-War British Art

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Property from the Estate of Sir Peter Hutchison

AUGUSTUS LUNN | GALE WARNING

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.

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