Still life with flowers in a yellow vase

Details

George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931)
Still life with flowers in a yellow vase
signed 'L Hunter' (upper left)
oil on board
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.)

Provenance

with T. & R. Annan & Sons, Glasgow.
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 28 October 1999, lot 216, where purchased by the present owner.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Sale room notice

Please note that this lot is property from the JOHN W. KLUGE COLLECTION.

Lot Essay

This painting is dateable to circa 1929 and derives from the artist's three year stay in the Cote d'Azur. The contrast between depicting the weight in the solitary apple (a concept assimilated from Cézanne's theories on art) and the reduction of the flowers to a flattened perspective are particularly characteristic of Hunter's late works.

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