Lot 49
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Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)
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Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)

Leaning Mountain Ash

Details
Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)
Leaning Mountain Ash
signed 'Hitchens' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated '"Leaning mountain ash"/1957/Ivon Hitchens/Greenleaves Petworth Sussex' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
15½ x 33¼ in. (39.4 x 85 cm.)
Provenance
with Leicester Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner in 1957 for £168.
Special Notice
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Lot Essay

Peter Meyer was a great friend of Hitchens, often travelling down to the artist's house near Petworth. He bought many of his pictures having seen them in the studio in the country, although Hitchens insisted that the sales actually went through his dealers. The present work was bought originally for the Contemporary Art Society.

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