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Interior with female figures

Maker

(artist)
1893-1979

Title

Interior with female figures

Date of Production

1939-1979

Medium

pen or dropper from cap of ink bottle and black ink on white wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.3 cm
Width: 32.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AH.13

Mode of Acquisition

Mark Ian Alastair Hunter, bequest, 1984

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© The Estate of Ivon Hitchens. All rights reserved, DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Label Text

Hunter evidently liked the work of Hitchens as there are five oil paintings by the artist in the collection in addition to this work on paper. The drawing has been executed entirely in Indian ink, and it has been suggested that the dropper from the ink bottle may have supplied the drawing implement, a plausible explanation for the wide variations in the different marks on the paper.

Notes

According to a now-missing sticker, this was executed in Petworth, Sussex. In 1939 Ivon Hitchens and his wife bought 6 acres of land at Lavington Common near Petworth, Sussex. They moved there in 1940 after their house in Hampstead was bombed and he remained there until his death in 1979.

Provenance

Dr Mark Ian Alastair Hunter (1909-1983); Hunter Bequest 1984

Exhibition History

A Passion for Drawings, Collectors at the Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/02/2002-09/06/2002

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, centre: a castle above "DEVON VALLEY / PARCHMENT".

Inscription: On sticker attached to backboard (removed, now missing), black ink: "by . Ivon Hitchens / Greenleaves / Petworth Sussex".

Collector's mark: none.

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