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Lot 55*,AR

Ivon Hitchens
(British, 1893-1979)
Summer Water, Rain 52.1 x 116.8 cm. (20 1/2 x 46 in.)

15 June 2016, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £43,750 inc. premium

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Ivon Hitchens (British, 1893-1979)

Summer Water, Rain
signed 'Hitchens' (lower left)
oil on canvas
52.1 x 116.8 cm. (20 1/2 x 46 in.)
Painted in 1961

Footnotes

Provenance
Howard Bliss
His sale; Christie's, London, 11 December 1970, lot 161
With Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by the father present owner
Private Collection, U.S.A

Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, Ivon Hitchens, June 1962, cat.no.24
London, The Tate Gallery, Ivon Hitchens, a retrospective exhibition, organised by the Arts Council, 11 July-18 August 1963, cat.no.144; this exhibition travelled to Bradford, City Art Gallery, 31 August-22 September and Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, 28 September-20 October (ill.)
London, Rutland Gallery, Ivon Hitchens, landscape into abstract, 1972, cat.no.29
Lincoln, Paintings by Hitchens from the Howard Bliss Collection, 1962-1968, cat.no.27; this exhibition travelled to Hereford, Kidderminster, Belfast, Wolverhampton, Gloucester, Dunfermline, St. Andrews, Kirkcaldy, Coventry, Carlisle and Kendal

Literature
Alan Bowness, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, London, 1973, pl.53 (col.ill.)
Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Andre Deutsch, London 1990, pl.66 (col.ill.)
Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, London 2007, pl.116 (col.ill.)

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