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Lot 58AR,W

Ivon Hitchens
(British, 1893-1979)
Foliage by Water, No.5 53.7 x 129.9 cm. (21 1/8 x 51 1/8 in.)

28 May 2014, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Ivon Hitchens (British, 1893-1979)

Foliage by Water, No.5
signed 'Hitchens' (lower left); further signed, inscribed and dated '"Foliage by water No.5"/1962/by Ivon Hitchens/Greenleaves/Petworth, Sussex' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
53.7 x 129.9 cm. (21 1/8 x 51 1/8 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
With Waddington Galleries, Montreal
Sale; Christie's, London, 3 March 1989, lot 462
With Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
With Annandale Galleries, Sydney
With Robert Sandelson, London, 5 February 2002, where acquired by
Miss Elizabeth Creak

Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, Ivon Hitchens, A Retrospective Exhibition, organised by the Arts Council, 11 July-18 August 1963, cat.no.154 (ill.b&w); this exhibition later travelled to Bradford, City Art Gallery, 31 August-22 September and Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, 28 September-20 October (where lent by Waddington Galleries)

"For Hitchens the truest mark of recognition was the retrospective exhibition of his work at the Tate Gallery, organised by the Arts Council to mark his seventieth birthday... The exhibition concluded with no fewer than seven versions of the same subject, Foliage by Water, hanging beside each other... Eight thousand people saw the show in the five weeks before it was reassembled, in a reduced form, first at Bradford and then Birmingham." (Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, Aldershot and Burlington, 2007, p.149-150)

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