Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)

Pond Landscape with Open Door

细节

Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)
Pond Landscape with Open Door
signed 'Hitchens' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 41 in. (52 x 105.5 cm.)
Painted in 1955

来源

Howard Bliss.
with New Art Centre, London.

展览

Venice, British Pavilion, XXX Biennale, 1956, no.16.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Hitchens and Chadwick, 1956-57, no.16: this exhibition travelled to Vienna, Wiener Sezession; Munich, Stdtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; and Paris, Muse Nationale d'Arte Moderne.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, The British Imagination: Twentieth-Century Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings, November 1990-January 1991, no.21, p.53 (illustrated).

拍品专文

Howard Bliss, the previous owner of this work, was Hitchens's most enduring patron. They met in 1944, and before long Bliss, the younger brother of the composer, Sir Arthur, was the owner of more than twenty paintings by Hitchens. This number eventually swelled to over fifty.
He used the proceeds of the sale of his father's valuable collection of prints to finance a collection of his own, made up of a fine group of landscape drawings by Gainsborough, as well as the contemporary art which was his passion. He was made a member of the Contemporary Art Society's selection committee, and he made generous gifts of Hitchens's works to galleries and museums, most notably to the Tate Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
(see P. Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, London, 1990, p.65).