Live Auction 799820th Century British & Irish Art
Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987)
Lot 101

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987)

Nine strawberries

Closed17 November 2011

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GBP 55,250

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Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987)
Nine strawberries
signed and dated 'Eliot Hodgkin 12 VI 55' (lower right)
tempera on board
4 x 5½ in. (10.2 x 14 cm.)

with Leicester Galleries, London.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1990 exhibition.

Specialist note

Nine strawberries formed part of a collection of works by Eliot Hodgkin that hung in Overton's Restaurant on St. James's Street, London until the late 1980s. At the time Overton's was owned by Isidore Kerman, the famed divorce lawyer, property developer and racehorse owner.