$23,000
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
Auction: June 12, 2017 11:00:00 AM EDT
Signed 'A J Munnings' bottom left, oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61cm)
Provenance: Private Collection, Virginia.
NOTE:
An outspoken critic of modernism, Sir Alfred Munnings was one of England's most important equine painters of the first half of the 20th century. He was associated with the Newlyn School of artists and was highly successful as a painter of commissioned horse portraits. A Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and President of the Royal Academy, he was represented by agents Frost & Reed during his lifetime.
The present work may relate to a watercolor study entitled "Stabled Horses" and annotated 'Labergement', painted in 1918 and in the collection of The Munnings Art Museum in Dedham, United Kingdom. Based on the latter work, the present lot 79 is likely to have been painted in France during 1918. There are two places in the Jura region of France where Munnings is know to have visited during his war artist commission: L'Abergement near Lons Le Saunier, and Labergement-Sainte-Marie near Malbuison. We would like to thank The Munnings Art Museum for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.