Lot 98
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Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)
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Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)

The Woodcutter

Details
Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)
The Woodcutter
signed 'Hitchens' (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated '"Study of a Young Man"/1959/by Ivon Hitchens/Greenleaves/Petworth Sussex' (on a label attached to the stretcher).
oil on canvas
29½ x 16 in. (74.9 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenance
Lord Raynor of Crowborough.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 June 1989, lot 399.
with Adonis Art, London.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

In his discussions with Hitchens, T.G. Rosenthal once asked the artist if he saw the nude in terms of landscape. Hitchens replied, 'I expect so. Yes, it is the same ... much more complex really because in a landscape you can run your brush strokes upwards but of course a nude isn't a tree where it doesn't matter if it's going up. You have to organize a nude more subtly so that you've got to extend the bounds of its possibility' (A. Bowness, Ivon Hitchens, London, 1973, p. 14).

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