Boys fishing on a bridge

Details

Frances Mary Hodgkins (1869-1947)
Boys fishing on a bridge
with inscription 'Miss Thorpe' on the reverse
watercolour and bodycolour on card
10¼ x 14 1/8in. (26 x 36cm.)

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Lot Essay

'Miss Thorpe' presumably refers to Hodgkins' pupil in Dordrecht, Teresa Thorp, the 'congenial and specially selected companion' (J. Drayton, Frances Hodgkins A Private Viewing, Auckland, 2005, p.121) with whom she travelled to Paris in November 1908.

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