Lot 14
14
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more The Property of the Estate of the Late Mrs M.A. Griffin, Sold by Order of the Executors.
Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A, R.W.S., (1878-1959)

A lady with a fan

Details
Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A, R.W.S., (1878-1959)
A lady with a fan
signed 'A. J. Munnings' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white on paper
12½ x 6¾ in. (31.7 x 17.1 cm.)
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Col. F.E. Walter, Thorpe Market, Norfolk and thence by descent to the present owner.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Munnings frequently painted dark-haired ladies such as the present sitter in many situations during his time at the Norwich lithography company of Page Brothers. (A similar lady is illustrated opposite p. 96 in An Artist's Life). He served as an apprentice for six years and then executed freelance work creating advertisements and poster designs for companies such as Caley's crackers and chocolate, Colman's mustard and Waverley Cycles. Using his cousin as a model, he depicts a young woman with a fan for a Caley's chocolate advertisement (illustrated in An Artist's Life opposite p. 97).

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