Lot Essay
'Painted from a drawing made at Chantemesle - near Vernon on the Seine - some sixty miles north of Paris, in 1922 or 1923. Exhibited for the first time at Tooths Gallery London at my second exhibition and sold then, 1928' - Ivon Hitchens
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Red House and Chalk Cliffs, France
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Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)
Red House and Chalk Cliffs, France
signed 'IVON HITCHENS.' (lower right), signed again and inscribed '"Red House & Chalk Cliffs"/IVON HITCHENS/169 Adelaide Rd NW3 London/Primrose Hill' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper
15 ¾ x 11 ¼ in. (40 x 28.5 cm.)
Executed cicra 1922-23.
Red House and Chalk Cliffs, France
signed 'IVON HITCHENS.' (lower right), signed again and inscribed '"Red House & Chalk Cliffs"/IVON HITCHENS/169 Adelaide Rd NW3 London/Primrose Hill' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper
15 ¾ x 11 ¼ in. (40 x 28.5 cm.)
Executed cicra 1922-23.
Provenance
with Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ivon Hitchens, December 1928 - January 1929, no. 33.
Special Notice
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Philip Harley
'Painted from a drawing made at Chantemesle - near Vernon on the Seine - some sixty miles north of Paris, in 1922 or 1923. Exhibited for the first time at Tooths Gallery London at my second exhibition and sold then, 1928' - Ivon Hitchens