Details SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS, P.R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1878-1959)A Huntsman Riding Through a Thicketsigned and dated A.J. Munnings/1908 (lower left)pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on paper111⁄4 x 131⁄4 in. (28.6 x 33.7 cm.)Provenance Anonymous sale; Wooley and Wallis, Salisbury, 25 April 2001, lot 97.with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner, September 2001.Special notice Artists Resale Right (Droit de Suite). Artists Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artists collection agent.This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.Conditions of SaleFAQsThis lot is offered by Christie Manson & Woods Ltd来源: Living at Church Farm in Swainsthorpe from around 1903 until 1911, Munnings often rode with the Norwich Staghounds: Hunting became a part of my life, and I saw many things on those days: bright winter sunlight on clipped horses and scarlet coats; on bare trees; stacks; on farmhouse gables; the riding out after a slight frost; the riding home with a frost beginning and a young moon in the sky; puddles already crisping over as I said good night to friends. Such were needed to freshen my mind and vision (A.J. Munnings, An Artists Life, London, 1950, p. 258).The horse in the present work is probably Rebecca, the dark brown mare, fifteen hands three inches high, which Munnings had purchased some years earlier from his friend the Norwich horse dealer, Richard Bullard. Good-natured to the last degree, she served as hack, hunter and model. When the Gowings, father and son, colt-breakers, came from Harleston and clipped my new possession (they used a hand-clipper in those days), Charles, the son, declared her a good un, and she looked the part (op. cit., p. 184). The sitter is probably George Curzon who regularly modelled for the artists hunting scenes.We are grateful to Lorian Peralta-Ramos, the Curatorial staff at The Munnings Museum and Tristram Lewis for their assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.