Chris Beetles Gallery

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Arco near Lake Garda

Cecil Arthur Hunt (1873-1965)

Price

£5,500

Signed

Signed
Signed and inscribed with title on reverse

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

20 x 26 inches

Exhibited

'A Century of British Art: 1900-1945', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, June-July 2021, no 123

In 1923 Hunt travelled to northern Italy and sketched many of the villages encircling Lake Garda, including the magnificent mountain town of Arco on its northern shore. The town is faced on one side by sheer limestone cliffs and is crowned by the high tower of the medieval Castello di Arco, clearly visible on this work. (sketchbooks 9 and 10). It is likely that this work is one of Hunt exhibited at the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours, either ‘Arco in the Valley of the Sarca’, Winter 1923, no 101 (bought by Wrenacre for £31) or ‘Arco’, Summer 1926, no 40 (bought by the Rt Hon C Allen for £52.10.0).

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