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Property from the Collection of the Late F.R.S. Yorke

Ivon Hitchens

April Nude No. 1

Lot Closed

November 24, 04:40 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from the Collection of the Late F.R.S. Yorke

Ivon Hitchens

1893 - 1979

April Nude No. 1


signed Hitchens (lower left); also signed Ivon Hitchens, titled and inscribed on a label attached to the stretcher bar 

oil on canvas

unframed: 51 by 76.5cm.; 20 by 30in.

framed: 76 by 101.5cm.; 30 by 40in.

Executed in 1949. 


We are grateful to Peter Khoroche, author of Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, London, 2007, for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

The Leicester Galleries, London, where acquired by F.R.S. Yorke, November 1950, and thence by family descent to the present owner
London, The Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by Ivon Hitchens, November 1950