May Matthews
Managing Director, Scotland
Lot 52
George Leslie Hunter(British, 1877-1931)A landscape in Fife 63.1 x 76 cm. (24 3/4 x 30 in.)
13 May 2021, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh£25,000 - £35,000
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George Leslie Hunter (British, 1877-1931)
A landscape in Fife
signed 'L Hunter' (lower right)
oil on canvas
63.1 x 76 cm. (24 3/4 x 30 in.)
with a further landscape work painted verso
signed 'L Hunter' (lower right)
oil on canvas
63.1 x 76 cm. (24 3/4 x 30 in.)
with a further landscape work painted verso
Footnotes
Provenance
With Alexander Reid, Dr T J Honeyman
Sale; Christies, Hopetoun, 15 October 1969, Lot 128
The present work depicts two views (one on each side of the canvas) of Drumeldrie, a hamlet, surrounded by farmland, just to the east of Upper Largo in Fife. It was one of Hunter's favoured haunts and a number of his pictures, both drawings and paintings survive.
Hunter travelled regularly to the East Neuk coast in Fife in the early 1920's, painting in Drumeldrie, St. Monans and Lower Largo and also inland at Ceres. 'The reason for Hunter's selection of Fife, both its coast and agricultural hinterland, is not recorded, but the light, the ever-changing hues of the sea and the varied colours of its lime-washed houses with their red pantiled roofs are likely to have been an attraction.' (Derek Ogston, The Life and Work of George Leslie Hunter 1877-1931, 2002, p. 68).
