Eliot Hodgkin

Tobacco Plant

Auction Closed

November 22, 01:24 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Eliot Hodgkin

1905 - 1987

Tobacco Plant


signed Eliot Hodgkin and dated 12.VIII.58 (lower left)

tempera on board

unframed: 20 by 18.5cm.; 8 by 7¼in.

framed: 31 by 30cm.; 12¼ by 11¾in.

Executed in 1958.


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 or email tamsin.goldingyee@sothebys.com.

Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London, where acquired by Mrs James Lilley

Sale, Sworders Fine Art, London, 5 October 2021, lot 183, where acquired by the present owner

London, Arthur Jeffress Gallery, Paintings in Egg Tempera by Eliot Hodgkin, 3 -27 November 1959, no. 21

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