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IVON HITCHENS (1893-1979)
IVON HITCHENS (1893-1979)
IVON HITCHENS (1893-1979)
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE SIMON AND PAMELA MAJARO
IVON HITCHENS (1893-1979)

Floating Boat

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IVON HITCHENS (1893-1979)
Floating Boat
signed 'Hitchens' (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated '''Floating Boat 1961.''/by IVON HITCHENS./Greenleaves. Petworth. Sussex.' (on the artist's label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
18 ½ x 56 3⁄8 in. (47 x 143.2 cm.)
Painted in 1961.
Provenance
Dr Y. Pomeraniac.
with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner in July 1962.
Literature
A. Bowness (ed.), Ivon Hitchens, London, 1973, n.p., pl. 49.
Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, Ivon Hitchens: Summer, Water and Other Paintings, June 1962, n.p., no. 13, illustrated.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, Ivon Hitchens: A Retrospective Exhibition, July - August 1963, n.p., no. 139, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Simon Majaro was born in Jerusalem in 1929. He moved to London in 1950 to study law at University College London but soon shifted towards business. He built a successful consulting career before joining Cranfield School of Management, becoming a respected professor and authoring influential books on creativity and innovation. He received an MBE in 2011 for voluntary services to music education through the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust, which he co-founded with his wife, Pamela. In retirement, Simon crafted string instruments from his Hampstead home, making 15 violins, violas, and cellos, each played professionally. He translated his father’s diaries, and writing his first novel at the age of 92. Simon and Pamela were keen collectors of art, owning fine examples of modernist paintings and studio ceramics.

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