Sir Alfred Munnings, P.R.A. (1878-1959)

Sow and Piglets

Details

Sir Alfred Munnings, P.R.A. (1878-1959)
Sow and Piglets
signed and dated indistinctly 'A.J.MUNNINGS 1917' (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 x 17 in. (38 x 43.2 cm.)

Provenance

James Boswell, Norwich.
Purchased by the present owner's family during the 1950s.

Lot Essay

'Munnings retained a soft spot for pigs from his youth when he wrote and illustrated a ballad about the Tale of the Gloucester Spot. He liked the idea of being a pig painter and along with cows regarded them as among the most paintable of animals' (see N. Usherwood, Alfred Munnings 1878-1959, Athenaeum Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 1987, p.97).

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