Lot 105
  • 105

Frances Hodgkins

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Frances Hodgkins
  • Still Life
  • signed
  • pencil and watercolour
  • 46 by 35.5cm.; 18 by 14in.
  • Executed circa 1942.

Provenance

The Redfern Gallery, London, where acquired by Wilfrid A. Evill November 1944 for £35.0.0, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963

Exhibited

London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Catalogue of Part of a Collection of Oil Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Sculpture Belonging to W. A. Evill, Esq., December 1947 - February 1948, cat. no.65 (as Flowers in Landscape) (probably);
Hampstead, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Catalogue of the Greater Portion of a Collection of Modern English Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Sculpture Belonging to W. A. Evill, March 1955, cat. no.48 (as Fruit and Landscape) (probably);
London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Water Colours and Sculpture, April - May 1961, (part III- section 2) cat. no.31 (as Still Life with Landscape) (probably);
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965, cat. no.62.

Literature

Arthur Howell, Frances Hodgkins, Four Vital Years, Rockliff, London, 1951, p.102 (as Still Life with Landscape).

Condition

The sheet is sound and appears to be laid down on card which is very slightly undulating. The colours have faded very slightly, otherwise in good original condition. Held under glass in a simple painted wood frame with a cream mount; unexamined out of frame. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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