Lot Essay
Gersau is a district in Switzerland, on the south-facing slopes of Mount Rigi and the shores of Lake Lucerne.
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Wet day at Gersau
Details
Eliot Hodgkin (Purley on Thames 1905-1987 London)
Wet day at Gersau
signed with initials and dated 'E.H. 50' (lower right), inscribed and signed again '"Wet Day at GERSAU"/by Eliot Hodgkin' (on the reverse)
oil on board
20 x 8 in. (50.8 x 20.2 cm.)
Wet day at Gersau
signed with initials and dated 'E.H. 50' (lower right), inscribed and signed again '"Wet Day at GERSAU"/by Eliot Hodgkin' (on the reverse)
oil on board
20 x 8 in. (50.8 x 20.2 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 February 1971, lot 83, as 'Terrace by a Lake'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 May 1972, lot 14, as 'Terrace by a Lake'.
with Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by Brian Sewell, 26 January 1977.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 May 1972, lot 14, as 'Terrace by a Lake'.
with Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by Brian Sewell, 26 January 1977.
Literature
B. Sewell, 'Petit Maître: Brian Sewell remembers Eliot Hodgkin', Tatler, March 1990, p. 140.
Exhibited
London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Eliot Hodgkin Painter and Collector, March - April 1990, no. 19.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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