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Lot 74AR

Ivon Hitchens
(British, 1893-1979)
A Boat and Reflections 46.4 x 109.7 cm. (18 1/4 x 43 1/4 in.)

13 June 2018, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £47,500 inc. premium

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Ivon Hitchens (British, 1893-1979)

A Boat and Reflections
signed 'Hitchens' (lower left); further signed, inscribed and dated '"A Boat and Reflections"/1959/by IVON HITCHENS/collection D.N Matthews OBE' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
46.4 x 109.7 cm. (18 1/4 x 43 1/4 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
The Artist, from whom acquired by
Dr David Napier Matthews O.B.E. (1911-1997)
Thence by family descent
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Terence Mullaly: Critic's Choice, 13-31 October 1959, cat.no.6
London, Tate Gallery, Ivon Hitchens — a Retrospective Exhibition, 11 July-18 August 1963, cat.no.120; this exhibition travelled in reduced form to Bradford, Bradford City Art Gallery, 31 August-22 September and Birmingham, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery 28 September-20 October

We are grateful to Peter Khoroche for his assistance in cataloguing this work.

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