LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

16.14 in. (41.00 cm.) (height) by 29.33 in. (74.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed; also signed, titled, dated 1951 and inscribed on a label attached to the stretcher

Exhibited:

Plymouth, Museum and Art Gallery, Three Masters of Modern British Painting, June - October 1961, cat. no.8, with Arts Council tour to Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Temple Newsam House, Leeds, City Art Gallery, Manchester and Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham; London, Tate, Ivon Hitchens: A Retrospective Exhibition, 11 July -20 October 1963, cat. no.76, illustrated in the catalogue, with tour to Bradford City Art Gallery, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery; Southampton, Civic Art Gallery, University of Southampton Arts Festival, 29 February - 22 March 1964, cat. no.3; Worthing, Art Gallery, 7 May - 4 June 1966, cat. no.2; London, Waddington Galleries, Ivon Hitchens, 3 March - 3 April 1993 (centenary of artist's birth), cat. no.23.

Literature:

Alan Bowness, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, London, 1973, cat. no.31, illustrated; Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Andre Deutsch, London, 1990, cat. no.40, illustrated; Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2007, cat.no.93, pp.120-21 and 127, illustrated on the front cover and p.124.

Provenance:

Estate of the artist. Waddington Galleries, London, whence acquired by the present owner in the late 1990s. Private Collection, UK