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Alan Reynolds

Sunrise

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Alan Reynolds

1926 - 2014

Sunrise


signed Reynolds, dated 56/57 and inscribed (lower right )

oil on board

unframed: 112 by 198cm.; 44 by 78in.

framed: 128.5 by 214cm.; 50 ½ by 83¼in.

Executed in 1956-7.

Gifted by the Artist to his wife, Mrs Vona Reynolds

Private Collection, London

Leeds, Leeds City Art Gallery (details untraced)

London, The Redfern Gallery, Centenary Exhibition: Part I, 21 June - 7 September 2023

Sunrise was one of the last figurative landscapes to be painted by Reynolds. It is stylistically very similar to his famous and critically acclaimed 'The Four Seasons' piece. Inscribed 'for Vona' on the reverse, this painting was a gift from Reynolds to his wife, not originally intended to be sold.