
Penny Day
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Provenance
The Artist
With Waddington Galleries, London
Sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1987, lot 112
With Waddington Galleries, London
A. Herbage
Sale; Christie's, London, 8 November 1991, lot 234 (as Spring Mood)
Miss Elizabeth Creak
Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, Ivon Hitchens, Paintings from 1930-1974, 3-27 February 1982, unnumbered (col.ill and cover detail)
Literature
Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, Aldershot and Burlington, 2007, p.54 (col.ill)
Please note that this work has been authenticated by John Hitchens, the artist's son, and bears a studio stamp (verso).
The 1963 Arts Council exhibition catalogue notes that the related composition Spring Mood was 'Painted looking out of the window of the artist's studio in Adelaide Road, Hampstead'.