IVON HITCHENS | ARCHED TREES UPWARD AND INWARD MOVEMENT

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.