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In 1923 Cecil Hunt made a motoring tour of northern Italy with his wife Phyllis and friend and critic R H Kitson. Hunt found much inspiration and sketched several of the villages encircling Lake Garda, including Arco, a town on the northern shore at the end of the wide Sarco Valley. Towering above the town, perched on sheer limestone cliffs is the medieval tower of the Castello di Arco. The theatricality of this phenomenon is a subject that would have appealed to Hunt, a keen Alpine climber and ardent admirer of majestic mountains. His technique, which included scraping back through layers of paint, enabled a theatricality of expression and light play which lent itself to such subjects. (Sketchbooks 9 and 10, both 1923).
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