Alfred Munnings

Boy and ponies

Boy and ponies by Alfred Munnings

Artwork Detail

Shrimp the stable-hand (whose real name was Fountain Page) is riding Augereau, the artist’s favourite pony. The work is a study for The Coming Storm (Art Gallery of New South Wales). Laura Knight, a life-long friend, said of Munnings, ‘His extraordinary vitality, his joy in his work – none of us could forget him. He was a fighter. He fought the wind that shivered his easel and canvas. He fought the heat and the cold. He fought the shifting sun and the changing shadows’. (20th Century Modern, 2003)

Title
Boy and ponies
Artist/creator
Alfred Munnings
Production date
circa 1910
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
810 x 938 mm
Credit line
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1921
Accession no
M1921/1/12
Copyright
Copying restrictions apply
Department
International Art
Display status
Not on display

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