Moatlands

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Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)
Moatlands
signed 'Hitchens' (lower right) and signed again, inscribed and dated '"Moatlands." 1937/by IVON HITCHENS /Greenleaves Petworth. Sussex' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20½ x 41¼ in. (52 x 104.8 cm.)

Provenance

with New Grafton Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner in 1976.

Literature

A. Bowness (Ed.), Ivon Hitchens, London, 1973, pl. 6.
Exhibition catalogue, Ivon Hitchens, London, Waddington Galleries, 1973, no. 2.
Exhibition catalogue, Ivon Hitchens, London, Royal Academy, 1979, p. 29, no. 7, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Ivon Hitchens, May - June 1973, no. 2.
London, Royal Academy, Ivon Hitchens A Retrospective Exhibition, March - April 1979, no. 7; this exhibition travelled to Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, May - June; Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery, June - July; Kingston-upon-Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, August - September; and Nottingham, Castle Museum, September - October.

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Lot Essay

Moatlands is a house near East Grinstead, Sussex, which belonged to the most important of the artist's early patrons, Mr and Mrs Cecil Harris. Ivon and Mollie went there regularly, staying in a large room above the garage so that it was possible to work undisturbed and at the same time enjoy the hospitality of the Harris family who became close friends. Hitchens painted a number of canvases there in the 1930s.

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