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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 13, 2021 | Christie's | New York | European Art Part I | 34 | $****** - ****** | Who's the Lady? and Two Studies |
paintings
112.1 x 177.8 cm (44.13 x 70 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'A. J. Munnings' (lower left); inscribed and initialed 'This was smaller canvas with HRH Princess Mary on grey that I put aside/for a larger one as shown in this Exhibition with Lord Harewood and the/Bramham Moor Hounds. In 1946 I had the canvas relined/and enlarged, making the figure of HRH into the central figure/(Lucy Glitters) and then surrounding her with members of the/Nonsuch Hunt as now seen. Ex-R.A. 1955-/Twice brought for R. A. and taken back for improvements. -AJM' (on a label on the reverse)
inscribed and dated 'Study for "Who's the Lady?"/1952.' (lower left), oil on board, 10 ½ x 16 ¼ in. (26.7 x 41.3 cm.);
inscribed and dated 'Studies for "Who's the Lady?"/1952.' (lower right), oil on panel, 10 ½ x 19 in. (26.7 x 48.3 cm.)
The artist, until at least 1956.
with St. James's Gallery, London, by 1961.
Sylvia M. Myers, Walton Manor, Bletchley.
Her sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 1969, lot 24, illustrated as the frontispiece.
Patricia Thompson (Mrs. D. B. Thompson), acquired at the above sale.
Her sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1979, lot 58.
The studies:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 1 May 1981, lot 96.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 1 May 1981, lot 97.
London, Royal Academy, 1955, no. 151.
Glasgow, Ian MacNicol Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Sir A. J. Munnings K.C.V.O., P.P.R.A., LL.D. , 10-31 October 1955, no. 4.
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of works by Sir Alfred J. Munnings, K.C.V.O., P.P.R.A., 10 March-30 June 1956, no. 288.
Wolverhampton, Municipal Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings, KCVO., PPRA. , July-August 1956, no. 27.
London, Bond Street Galleries, Exhibition of Landscapes, Horse Studies and Drawings by Sir Alfred Munnings, KCVO. PPRA , 1956, no. 50.
Dedham, Essex, The Munnings Art Museum, lent in honor of the artist's centenary, 1978.
London, Windsor & Eaton Fine Arts Co., 1978.
Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, Alfred J. Munnings from Regional Collections , 6 June-1 September 2008.
The studies:
Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, Alfred J. Munnings from Regional Collections , 6 June-1 September 2008, as Study for Who's the Lady (both).
The Daily Mirror , London, 30 April 1955, illustrated.
'Solved - The Mystery of the Lady on the Horse,' The Daily Express , 4 December 1955, illustrated with a detail.
'Modern Art 'a Disease', Sculptor's Comment at Wolverhampton,' Birmingham Daily Post , 21 July 1956, p. 7, illustated with a photo of the work on exhibition.
The Connoisseur , November 1961, illustrated.
K. McConkey, An English Idyll, A Loan Exhibition of Works by Sir Alfred Munnings , exh. cat., London, 2001, pp. 20-21, illustrated.
SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS, P.R.A., R.W.S. (British, 1878-1959)
Who's the Lady? and Two Studies
signed 'A. J. Munnings' (lower left); inscribed and initialed 'This was smaller canvas with HRH Princess Mary on grey that I put aside/for a larger one as shown in this Exhibition with Lord Harewood and the/Bramham Moor Hounds. In 1946 I had the canvas relined/and enlarged, making the figure of HRH into the central figure/(Lucy Glitters) and then surrounding her with members of the/Nonsuch Hunt as now seen. Ex-R.A. 1955-/Twice brought for R. A. and taken back for improvements. -AJM' (on a label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
44 1/8 x 70 in. (112.1 x 177.8 cm.)
(3)The studies:
inscribed and dated 'Study for "Who's the Lady?"/1952.' (lower left), oil on board, 10 ½ x 16 ¼ in. (26.7 x 41.3 cm.);
inscribed and dated 'Studies for "Who's the Lady?"/1952.' (lower right), oil on panel, 10 ½ x 19 in. (26.7 x 48.3 cm.)
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