George Leslie Hunter
Nude Study
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March 17, 01:25 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
George Leslie Hunter
1877-1931
Nude Study
signed L. Hunter (lower right)
wax crayon, pen and ink and pencil on paper
framed: 38 by 33cm.; 15 by 13in.
unframed: 56 by 50cm.; 22 by 19¾in.
Executed in 1930.
We are grateful to Jill Marriner for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Major Ion R. Harrison and thence by family descent to the present owners
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, The Thistle Foundation, Pictures from a Private Collection, March 1951, no.136a
Hunter went to life classes at Glasgow Art Club during two periods of his career circa 1923-4 and in 1930. The present work dates from this later period. His friend and biographer T.J. Honeyman commented that: 'Hunter was very keen about it and did scores of drawings of the nude. Some he coloured with cheap crayon, adding an imaginative landscape setting. Others he left as he had first sketched them, in a hard heavy outline….but the kind of thing one feels impelled to look at again and again.' (T.J. Honeyman, Introducing Leslie Hunter, London, 1937, pp.157-158)