GEORGE LESLIE HUNTER (SCOTTISH 1877-1931) STREET IN ANTIBES Signed, pen and ink and coloured chalk (30cm x 37.5cm (11.75in x 14.75in)) Provenance: The Fine Art Society Ltd, Edinburgh, 1976, no.13494 The Collection of the late R. L. MacDonald Footnote: Note: Between 1927 and 1929 Hunter spent extensive periods working in the south of France, particularly in Provence. He captured the climate and life-style in lively works such as the present example. It shows his exceptional skills as a draughtsman, with his deft scene-setting and fluid depiction of trees and architecture. Structure is provided by inked lines, emotion and warmth by the use of coloured chalk, dominated by a verdant green. In 1928, Hunter described Provence as 'the best part of Europe with sunshine every day, fruit, flowers, fine colours and everything the heart could desire.' (letter from Hunter to Matthew Justice quoted in Bill Smith and Jill Marriner, Hunter Revisited: The Life and Art of Leslie Hunter, Edinburgh 2012, p. 136, footnote 13, p. 191).