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Eliot Hodgkin(1905-1987)Three Gourds 9 x 17.5 cm. (3 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
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signed and dated '23 X 58' (lower left)
tempera on board
9 x 17.5 cm. (3 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
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Provenance:
with Clarges Gallery, London
'In so far as I have any conscious purpose, it is to show the beauty of natural objects [...] such things as brussels sprouts, turnips, onions, pebbles and flints, bulbs, dead leaves, bleached vertebrae, an old boot cast up by the tide. People sometimes tell me that they had never really 'seen' something before I painted it, and I should like to believe this [...] For myself, if I must put it into words, I try to look at quite simple things as though I were seeing them for the first time and as though no one had ever painted them before.' (Eliot Hodgkin, from an article in Painter's Purpose in The Studio, August 1947)
























