“Plein-air tour de force”

Summer afternoon on the Wensum, Costessey is a plein-air tour de force imbued with colour, light and atmosphere…

Christie’s

‘His pure landscapes would of themselves have made a reputation. Contemplating them in the Diploma Gallery, along with the best of the gypsy studies and Exmoor ponies, one was forced to the provocative conclusion that the highest prices have been paid for the wrong Munnings pictures, that posterity will honour not the facile remembrancer of briefly celebrated horses and the vanishing panoply of the hunt, but the artist who painted the immemorial glory of the gorse on Ringland Hills.’ (R. Pound, The Englishman; A Biography of Sir Alfred Munnings, London, 1962, pp. 212-3).

Christie’s

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