LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.08 in. (51.00 cm.) (height) by 40.94 in. (104.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 44; also signed and inscribed with the title on a label attached to the stretcher

Exhibited:

London, Leicester Galleries, New Paintings By Ivon Hitchens, March - April 1944, cat. no.18; London, Leicester Galleries, Paintings from 1940-1952 by Ivon Hitchens, June 1952, cat. no.16; London , Royal Academy, Ivon Hitchens: A Retrospective Exhibition, March - April 1979, cat. no.21, illustrated in the catalogue p.23; London, Hayward Gallery, Ivon Hitchens, 1989, cat. no.14; London, Serpentine Gallery, Ivon Hitchens: Forty-five Paintings, October – November 1989, cat. no.14.

Literature:

Patrick Heron, Ivon Hitchens, Penguin, Harmondsworth 1955, col. pl.1; Alan Bowness (ed.), Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, London 1973, col. pl.10.