Lot 898
‡SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS, PRA, RWS (1878-1959)
THE WATERING POOL
Signed A. J. Munnings, oil on canvas
48.5 x 59cm.
Provenance: Phillips, London, November 15th 1988, lot 59, entitled 'The Grey Mare' (£31,900, incl. premium.) The catalogue entry stated: 'A portrait of the horse of the present owner's great-grandfather, who was a friend of the artist.' Purchased by the current owner.
* Painted circa 1912. The work is refreshingly personal and direct, an informal study dependent on intense observation. Munnings had moved from near Norwich to Lamorna in Cornwall in 1910, where he remained until 1913. 'I painted…horses placed where I wanted them - in a pinewood, on a moor, by a wall. Such backgrounds made compositions and gave the will to work..'. (A.J.Munnings, An Artist's Life, 1950, p.273)
