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With a minimal sky and landscape, this painting is all about the grouping, movement, light and colour of the jockeys and horses. Through this, we can feel the tension at the start of the race and hear the shouts of the jockeys as they jostle for their place. Painted towards the end of Munnings's life, and for his own enjoyment, the loose depictions of the horses hark back to his earlier years. Free from constraints Munnings is concerned purely with capturing the atmosphere of the movement at the start of a race, evoking its tensions and vitality, its immediacy as the jockeys jostle for their positions. Munnings recalls: 'A hundred times have I seen this sight, and yet it was more beautiful than ever... once more I saw the classic sight of bright silks against a dark sky.
Throughout the span of his career and vast experience gained, Munnings's depiction of form was always underpinned and informed by his early training and development. In particular, note the head of horse No. 6 which echoes the sculptured form of his drawing of the Parthenon Horse's Head.
The Munnings Art Museum
Colchester
Title
Under Starter's Orders, Newmarket Start, Cries of 'No, No, Sir'
Date
1957
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 112.4 x W 177.8 cm
Accession number
131
Acquisition method
gift from the artist
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
signed
The Munnings Art Museum
Castle House, Dedham, Colchester, Essex CO7 6AZ England
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