Live Auction 13731Brian Sewell - Critic & Collector
Eliot Hodgkin (Purley on Thames 1905-1987 London)
Lot 225

Eliot Hodgkin (Purley on Thames 1905-1987 London)

Wet day at Gersau

Closed27 September 2016

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GBP 4,000

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Eliot Hodgkin (Purley on Thames 1905-1987 London)
Wet day at Gersau
signed with initials and dated 'E.H. 50' (lower right), inscribed and signed again '"Wet Day at GERSAU"/by Eliot Hodgkin' (on the reverse)
oil on board
20 x 8 in. (50.8 x 20.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 February 1971, lot 83, as 'Terrace by a Lake'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 May 1972, lot 14, as 'Terrace by a Lake'.
with Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by Brian Sewell, 26 January 1977.

Specialist note

Gersau is a district in Switzerland, on the south-facing slopes of Mount Rigi and the shores of Lake Lucerne.