John Tunnard
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John Tunnard #4,941Blue-Chip

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Selected Works92

Museum Acquisitions

MoMA
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Detroit Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Art Gallery of NSW
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Yale University Art Gallery
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
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Previous Sales 68

Christie's
Composition: Aerial Forms
Composition: Aerial Forms, 1938
£16,510 ($22k USD)
Oct 2025
Christie's
Abstract for a billet
Abstract for a billet, 1941
£20,160 ($27k USD)
Nov 2024
Christie's
Waste
Waste, 1963
£8,820 ($12k USD)
Oct 2024
Christie's
Flood tide
Flood tide, 1946
Bought In
Mar 2023
Christie's
Radio for Vogue - upright
Radio for Vogue - upright, 1945
£35,280 ($47k USD)
Oct 2022
Christie's
Construction
Construction, 1943
£20,160 ($27k USD)
May 2022
Christie's
Lunar Spectrum
Lunar Spectrum, 1943
£17,500 ($23k USD)
Jan 2020
Christie's
Measures
Measures, 1944
£60,000 ($79k USD)
Nov 2018
Christie's
Augen Gabbro
Augen Gabbro, 1946
£37,500 ($50k USD)
Nov 2017
Christie's
Untitled (Icebergs)
Untitled (Icebergs)
£27,500 ($36k USD)
Nov 2017
Christie's
Reflection
Reflection
£9,750 ($13k USD)
Mar 2017
Christie's
Erebus
Erebus
£13,750 ($18k USD)
Jul 2016
Christie's
Abstract Composition
Abstract Composition
£74,500 ($98k USD)
Jun 2016
Christie's
Composition
Composition
£6,250 ($8k USD)
Mar 2016
Christie's
Golgotha
Golgotha
£35,000 ($46k USD)
Feb 2016
Christie's
Tide race
Tide race
£25,000 ($33k USD)
Jun 2014
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled
£2,500 ($3k USD)
Mar 2013
Christie's
Abstract composition
Abstract composition
£30,000 ($40k USD)
May 2010
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled
£26,250 ($35k USD)
May 2010
Christie's
Landscape
Landscape
£22,500 ($30k USD)
May 2010
Christie's
Phantom
Phantom
£17,500 ($23k USD)
May 2010
Christie's
Abstraction
Abstraction
£11,875 ($16k USD)
Feb 2008
Christie's
Effigy
Effigy
£22,100 ($29k USD)
Nov 2007
Christie's
Display
Display, 1966
£90,000 ($119k USD)
Nov 2006
Christie's
Painting No.1
Painting No.1
£78,000 ($103k USD)
Nov 2006

For Sale 2

Osborne Samuel · Artsy
Aerial Disturbance
Aerial Disturbance, 1946
Price on request
Watercolour, pencil and gouache on paper
Osborne Samuel · Artsy
Threat
Threat, 1946
Price on request
Watercolour, pencil and gouache on paper
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Current Exhibitions0

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Past Exhibitions1

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#1,910 Agnews

John Tunnard: Dream Landscapes Exhibition

John Tunnard

6 St James's Pl, London SW1A 1NP, UK

Sep 7, 2011 — Oct 7, 2011

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Exhibition
East Gallery Object – Space – Time: John Tunnard amidst the English Modernists
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Exhibition
John Tunnard: Dream Landscapes Exhibition
Sep 7, 2011
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John Tunnard dies
Jan 1, 1971
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John Tunnard born
Jan 1, 1900
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