Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction

Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction

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Eliot Hodgkin

Walnuts

Session begins in

18:47:34

November 15, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Bid

8,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Eliot Hodgkin

1905 - 1987

Walnuts


signed Eliot Hodgkin and dated 22 X 55 (lower left)

tempera on board

unframed (window): 10 by 10cm.; 4 by 4in.

framed: 23 by 22cm.; 9 by 8¾in.

Executed in 1955.


We are grateful to Mark Hodgkin for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. He is currently preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work and would like to hear from owners of any work by the artist so that these can be included in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to Mark Hodgkin, c/o Sotheby's, Modern & Post-War British Art, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA.

Mrs de Pass, by whom bequeathed to Lady Mellor

Gifted by the above to Anne Hodgkin, December 1966, thence by descent to Howard Hodgkin

Thence by descent to the present owner

 London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Eliot Hodgkin Paintings in Oil and Tempera, 1966, no.31 (as Two Walnuts)