Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 15 October 2018

Art: Evening Session

Sold for

ZAR 614 520
Lot 501
  • Ivon Hitchens; Felled Trees


Lot Estimate
ZAR 500 000 - 700 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 614 520

About this Item

British 1893-1979
Felled Trees

signed and dated 46; inscribed with the artist's name, address and the title on a label adhered to the reverse; fragments of exhibition labels adhered to the reverse

oil on canvas
40 by 85cm excluding frame

Notes

The son of a landscape artist, Ivon Hitchens was trained at London’s Royal Academy and early on influenced by critic and painter Roger Fry. It was only in the 1930s that Hitchens began to synthesise his admiration for Paul Cézanne into a noteworthy personal practice. A founder member of the Seven and Five Club in Hampstead, an English group of artists committed to a home-grown version of modernist abstraction, he is best known for his energetic landscapes of West Sussex. Hitchens began painting in this region in the late 1930s. The bombing of his London studio in 1940 prompted Hitchens to relocate to Lavington Common near Petworth in Sussex, where he settled permanently. This lot is typical of his earlier representational landscapes using more sober colours. The dramatic horizontal form, sweeping brushwork and ability to render the sensation of light are hallmarks of his esteemed landscape practice. - Sean O’Toole

Provenance

Howard Bliss.

Dr A Hunter, 1950.

Mr and Mrs Harrison.

The Labia Collection.

Exhibited

The Mayor Gallery, London, 1925.
Art Exhibitions Bureau.
Waddington Galleries, London.
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 1956.
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Friends of South African National Gallery, Labia Private Collection exhibition, catalogue number 37.

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