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George Leslie Hunter (British, 1877-1931) Still Life with Fruit and Flowers image 1
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Lot 37*

George Leslie Hunter
(British, 1877-1931)
Still Life with Fruit and Flowers

9 October 2024, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

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George Leslie Hunter (British, 1877-1931)

Still Life with Fruit and Flowers
signed 'L Hunter' (upper left)
oil on board
60.9 x 50.8cm (24 x 20in).

Footnotes

Provenance
With Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Glasgow.
With Portland Gallery, London.
Private collection, USA.

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit dates from between 1923 to 1925 and shows Hunter surging forward in modernism, making the vital step-change in colour and form he was seeking. His visits to Paris in 1922 and early 1923 had fired his creativity.

First confirmation of his success is vividly described in the review of Hunter's paintings and drawings at Alexander Reid in December 1923, when the Glasgow Herald's critic insists the exhibition "should not be missed" and that "nothing so important by him has been seen for several years."

"Mr Hunter having spent a considerable part of his time abroad is fully in touch with modern movements."

"He paints with an opulent palette and is ever reaching after a fuller and more prismatic range of colour harmonies." Of a "still life showing a dish of fruit set in front of a richly designed Persian curtain, there is perhaps nothing more vital, more beautiful or more harmonious in the gallery than this painting.
(Glasgow Herald, 19 December 1923, p.12 f).

Bonhams would like to thank Jill Marriner for her assistance with this footnote.

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