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Lot 75AR

Ivon Hitchens
(British, 1893-1979)
Quiet Walk, November 52 x 117.8 cm. (20 1/2 x 46 3/8 in.)

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

Sold for £50,000 inc. premium

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Ivon Hitchens (British, 1893-1979)

Quiet Walk, November
signed 'Hitchens' (lower right); further signed, inscribed and dated 'Quiet Walk/November/1957/by IVON HITCHENS./Greenleaves.Lavington Common/Petworth/Sussex.' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
52 x 117.8 cm. (20 1/2 x 46 3/8 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
With Leicester Galleries, London, 1958, where acquired by
Sir Allen Lane
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1998, lot 65, where acquired by the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.


Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, New Year Exhibition, January 1958, cat.no.101
London, Tate Gallery, Ivon Hitchens: A Retrospective Exhibition, 11 July-18th August 1963, cat.no.95; this exhibition travelled to Bradford, Bradford City Art Gallery, 31 August-22 September, Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, 28 September-20 October

Sir Allen Lane was one of the founders of Penguin books.

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