Cecil Arthur Hunt (1873-1965)
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Cecil Arthur Hunt (1873-1965)

Dawn, Col du Fresnay

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Cecil Arthur Hunt (1873-1965)
Dawn, Col du Fresnay
signed and titled twice 'C A Hunt Dawn Col du Fresnay' (lower right and left)
pencil and gouache on paper
14 9/16 x 21¾in. (37 x 55.2cm.)
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours.
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Lot Essay

An active member of the Alpine Club, Hunt travelled wideley in the Alps, Italy, the Scottish Highlands and North Wales. Elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1919, he contributed works to the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists, as well as to the Alpine Club winter exhibitions. He wrote of painting in the Alps, 'Even the simplest mountain face or ridge a mile or two away is full of exquisite details, all apparently well-defined. But when you try to draw one of the details, you cannot discover where it begins and ends. ... [The painter's] subject is there before him, overwhelmingly obvious, impossible to imitate. All he can hope to do is to give a faithful impression of the emotion aroused in him by the scene'.

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