Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
A LIFE WITH ART: THE COLLECTION OF MOLLIE AND GRAHAM DARK
Ivon Hitchens
Variations on a Theme no. 12, Figure in a Strong Light
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Life With Art: The Collection of Mollie and Graham Dark
Ivon Hitchens
1893 - 1979
Variations on a Theme no. 12, Figure in a Strong Light
signed Ivon Hitchens (lower right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 51 by 84cm.; 20 by 33in.
framed: 71.5 by 105cm.; 28 by 41¼in.
Executed in 1950.
We are grateful to Peter Khoroche, author of Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, London, 2007, for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Leicester Galleries, London, where acquired by A. Joyce Cary, Esq., 1950
Austin Desmond, Ascot, where acquired by the late owners
Patrick Heron, Penguin Modern Painters: Ivon Hitchens, Penguin, London, 1955, pl. 27
Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2007, no. 77, illustrated p. 103
London, Leicester Galleries, New Paintings by Ivon Hitchens, November 1950, no. 13
London, Austin Desmond, Modern British Art: From Newlyn through St Ives to the Present, 1985 no. 34
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