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Lot 63AR,W

Ivon Hitchens
(British, 1893-1979)
A White House Surrounded by Trees, No. 1 53.4 x 132.1 cm. (21 x 52 in.)

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

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Ivon Hitchens (British, 1893-1979)

A White House Surrounded by Trees, No. 1
signed and dated 'Hitchens 75' (lower left); further signed, inscribed and dated again '"a white House Surrounded by trees, NO.1"/1975/by IVON HITCHENS Greenleaves, Petworth, Sussex' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
53.4 x 132.1 cm. (21 x 52 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
The Artist's Estate
With Waddington Galleries, London, 4 June 1996, where acquired by
Miss Elizabeth Creak

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Ivon Hitchens, A Retrospective Exhibition, 21 March-25 April 1979, cat.no.52 (ill.b&w p.28, where lent by the artist); this exhibition later travelled to Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 10 May-3 June, Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery, 16 June-18 July, Kingston-upon-Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, 4 August-2 September and Nottingham, Castle Museum, 8 September-14 October
London, Waddington Galleries, Ivon Hitchens, 19 June-13 July 1996, cat.no.13 (col.ill)

Literature
Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, Aldershot and Burlington, 2007, p.175 (col.ill)

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