Live Auction 19041The Delighted Eye: Works from the Collection of Allen and Beryl Freer
Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)
Lot 336

Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)

Red House and Chalk Cliffs, France

Closed23 January 2020

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Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)
Red House and Chalk Cliffs, France
signed 'IVON HITCHENS.' (lower right), signed again and inscribed '"Red House & Chalk Cliffs"/IVON HITCHENS/169 Adelaide Rd NW3 London/Primrose Hill' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper
15 ¾ x 11 ¼ in. (40 x 28.5 cm.)
Executed cicra 1922-23.

with Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note


'Painted from a drawing made at Chantemesle - near Vernon on the Seine - some sixty miles north of Paris, in 1922 or 1923. Exhibited for the first time at Tooths Gallery London at my second exhibition and sold then, 1928' - Ivon Hitchens