Balcony view, Iping Church

Copyright

Maker

1893-1979

Title

Balcony view, Iping Church

Date of Production

(circa) 1943

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 105.3 cm (canvas)
Width: 51.5 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1984.AH.189

Mode of Acquisition

Mark Ian Alastair Hunter, bequest, 1984

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Daisies

Label Text

After his London home was bombed in 1940, Ivon Hitchens moved to West Sussex where he painted this view looking towards Iping church from a balcony. The opened door divides the picture vertically; on one side the sky appears dark and threatening, whereas the scene through the glass door itself is more brightly coloured, offering a contrasting mood. The vase of poppies perhaps sounds a note of remembrance given that the picture was painted at the height of the Second World War.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed by the artist : lower right & recto : : Hitchens

Provenance

Purchased from the Redfern Gallery by Dr Alastair Hunter, February 1945; Hunter Bequest 1984

Exhibition History

20th century British Art, Courtauld Gallery Room 11, 10/12/2022-07/05/2024

Ivon Hitchens: Space through Colour, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 29/06/2019-13/10/2019; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, 02/11/2019-23/02/2020

The Hunter Collection of Twentieth Century Masters, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/1987-03/06/1988

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