拍品 120
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Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959)
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Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959)

Hot Toddy

細節
Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959)
Hot Toddy
signed 'A.J.MUNNINGS' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour, bodycolour, pen, brush and black ink
5¾ x 8½ in. (14.5 x 21.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1893-99
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

One of the bold and brightly coloured designs which Munnings produced early in his career while working for Page Bros. & Co., Ltd., a Norwich firm of lithographers, where he completed a six-year apprenticeship between 1893 and 1899. The artist recalled, 'As those years went on my designs must have brought a great deal of business to Page Bros. & Co. Ltd., of Norwich, for I often had more work handed to me than I could cope with ... The design might be for lemonade - chocolates - mustard - whisky - pills - even for poultry foods or election posters. Yet whatever I was then doing would have to be left, and the other started, which meant that I must stir up my imagination and think hard to get an idea - something for printing in three or more colours, something effective and with good spacing' (An Artist's Life, Bungay, 1950, p. 72).