Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

George Leslie Hunter (Scottish 1877-1931)
Largo Bay
Signed L. Hunter (lower right)
Oil on board
36.5 x 44cm

Provenance:
Dr A. Harper;
The Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by the present private collectors, October 1983;
Private Collection, Yorkshire

“Everyone must choose his own way, and mine will be the way of colour”
- George Leslie Hunter

George Leslie Hunter began working in Fifeshire in 1919 and returned there frequently during the early 1920s. Fishing villages such as Largo and Ceres were recurring subjects, through which he demonstrated the influence of French art, including Matisse and above all Cézanne. The present work shows how Hunter would use rapid brushstrokes of strong colour from across the spectrum to build up form.