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Lot 146
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Eliot Hodgkin

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Eliot Hodgkin
  • Three Nectarines in White Paper
  • signed and dated 10.ii.57
  • tempera on panel
  • 20 by 34.5cm.; 7¾ by 13½in.

Provenance

Private Collection, U.S.A.

Exhibited

New York, Durlacher Brothers Gallery, Eliot Hodgkin, March 1958, cat. no.17.

Condition

Unexamined out of frame. Sound board. There is very minor surface dirt, with a tiny, possible scratch in the lower right hand quadrant, but this excepting the work appears in excellent overall condition. Ultraviolet light reveals no obvious signs of fluorescence or retouching. Housed behind glass in a gilt wooden frame, set within a fabric-textured mount. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Mark Hodgkin, the Artist's grandson, for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.