ID 1388496 
Lot 166  | IVON HITCHENS (1893-1979)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000 
Arched Trees No. 14
signed ‘Hitchens’ (lower right), signed again and inscribed '"Arched Trees" No. 14./ Ivon Hitchens/ Greenleaves. Petworth. Sussex' (on the artist's label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16 x 35 ½ in. (40.6 x 90.2 cm.)
Painted in 1954.
Provenance
Purchased by Mrs Webster Plass at the 1957 exhibition.
A gift from the above to the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, in 1959.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Olympia, 26 November 2003, lot 165, where purchased by the previous owner.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 May 2010, lot 52.
with Alan Wheatley, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
O. Wittmann (intro.), The Toledo Museum of Art: European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 77, 383, pl. 358.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Ivon Hitchens, June 1957, no. 15.
| Artist: | Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Artist: | Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Address of auction | 
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom  | |
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