Alfred Munnings
Boy and ponies
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
- 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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