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Property from an Important Private Collection

IVON HITCHENS | ARCHED TREES UPWARD AND INWARD MOVEMENT

Auction Closed

November 20, 12:36 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

IVON HITCHENS

1893-1979

ARCHED TREES UPWARD AND INWARD MOVEMENT


signed; also signed, titled and inscribed on a label attached to the stretcher bar

oil on canvas

42 by 110cm.; 16½ by 43¼in.

Executed in the early 1960s.

Sale, Sotheby's London, 9th November 1988, lot 125

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 5th November 1997

'I should like to be able to put on canvas this underlying harmony which I first feel rather then see, and than extract from the facts of nature, distil and later develop according to the needs of the canvas' (Ivon Hitchens, quoted in Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Andre Deutsh, London, 1990, p.109).


We are grateful to the Estate of the Artist for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.