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John Young Hunter

A song without words

Lot closes

October 1, 04:55 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Starting Bid

32,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

John Young Hunter 

British

1874 - 1955


A song without words 

signed and dated lower left: J. Young Hunter 1906.

oil on canvas

canvas: 42 by 72 ⅛ in.; 106.7 by 183.2 cm

framed: 52 by 82 ⅜ in.; 132.1 by 209.2 cm

Dicksee & Co., Liverpool, 1906 (according to a label on reverse)


Exh. Cat, the 138th exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1906, p.7.

Royal Academy pictures (the Royal Academy supplement of "the Magazine of art”),1906, p. 84 (illustrated).

Austin Chester, 'The Art of Mr. J Young Hunter', in The Windsor Magazine, Vol. 30, October 1909, p. 501 (illustrated).

Pyms Gallery, Edwardian Pre-Raphaelites: The art of John and Mary Young Hunter, London, 2000, no. 34,  p.6 (detail illustrated ), p. 66-67, (illustrated).

London, Royal Academy, 1906, Gallery no. I, no. 8

Glasgow, Institute of Fine Arts, 1908, (191)