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John Tunnard ARA (British 1900-1971).
Beam.
Signed, inscribed and dated u.r.,: John Tunnard/F. 13 63, watercolour and gouache with stopping out and scratching out, original label attached to backboard, in original frame.
19.2 x 27.8 cm.
Provenance:
McRoberts and Tunnard, London 3 March 1964, sold 15 April 1964 to a private collector.
Their sale Bonhams, 1 July 2009, lot 44.
Literature:
Tunnard ledger 63/4-F: 13.
Peat and B.A. Whitton, John Tunnard, His Life and Works, 1997, p. 197, no. 810.
Peat and Whitton note that the artist's later painting had a more assured quality. Tunnard distilled his early mathematical precision and added a more atmospheric feeling, ‘this is most noted in the swiftly executed smaller gouaches'.
Dimensions
19.2 x 27.8 cmThe BADA Standard
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