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Highland Sunset

Cecil Arthur Hunt (1873-1965)

Price

SOLD

Signed

Signed
Signed and inscribed with title on original backboard

Medium

Watercolour and bodycolour

Dimensions

12 x 16 ½ inches

Provenance

William Macdonald

Exhibited

Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 1961, no 603
(Bought by William Macdonald);
'Chris Beetles Summer Show', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 2015, no 67

From 1922-1959, Cecil Hunt and his wife, Phyllis, made regular motoring tours of Scotland and the inner Hebrides, sketching, climbing and walking. This painting combines several features that inspired Hunt's passions; the dramatic and majestic highland landscape, the atmospheric smoke, and theatrical light cast from both the lone industrial lamps and the luminous natural sunset. Hunt made hundreds of intense sketches on these journeys and often later reworked them. It is thought that this scene might be from the Kyle of Lochalsh looking towards Skye.

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