Lot Essay
We are very grateful to Peter Khoroche for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
IVON HITCHENS (1893-1979)
Early Evening
Details
IVON HITCHENS (1893-1979)
Early Evening
signed 'Hitchens' (lower right), indistinctly signed again and inscribed 'Ivon HITCHENS/Greenleaves. Lavington Common/Petworth Sussex/"EARLY EVENING"' (on the artist's label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16 x 29 ½ in. (40.6 x 75 cm.)
Painted in 1941.
Early Evening
signed 'Hitchens' (lower right), indistinctly signed again and inscribed 'Ivon HITCHENS/Greenleaves. Lavington Common/Petworth Sussex/"EARLY EVENING"' (on the artist's label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16 x 29 ½ in. (40.6 x 75 cm.)
Painted in 1941.
Provenance
with Leicester Galleries, London.
with Mayor Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner's parents, and by descent.
with Mayor Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner's parents, and by descent.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Paintings by Ivon Hitchens, March 1942, no. 142, as 'Earley Evening'.
Brought to you by
Pippa Jacomb
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