ID 1472859
Lot 27 | IVON HITCHENS (1893-1979)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
Balcony with Flowers
signed 'Hitchens' (lower right), signed again, indistinctly inscribed and dated 'Ivon Hitchens./Greenleaves, Lavington Common/Petworth Sussex./Balcony with Flowers/1943.' (on the artist's label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
42 x 20 ½ in. (106.7 x 52.1 cm.)
Painted in 1943.
Provenance
with Lefevre Gallery, London.
Dr Mary Capes, by 1963.
Her sale; Christie's, London, 1 March 1974, lot 203.
with Waddington Galleries, London.
Design Research Unit, London.
with Ivor Braka, London, where purchased by the present owners in February 1988.
Literature
P. Heron, Ivon Hitchens, London, 1955, pl. 10.
Exhibited
Leeds, Temple Newsam, Ivon Hitchens - Henry Moore, April - June 1945, no. 24.
London, Tate Gallery, Ivon Hitchens: A Retrospective Exhibition, July - August 1963, no. 36: this exhibition travelled to Bradford, City Art Gallery, August - September; and Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, September - October.
| Artist: | Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Still life |
| 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 |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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