April Flowers, Mostly Daffodils
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About the work
- Location
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Country: USA
City: New York
Place: UK Mission to the United Nations
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About the artist
The son of a painter, Ivon Hitchens was born in London and studied first at St John's Wood School of Art and then, until 1919, at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1920 Hitchens was a founder member of the artists' group, the Seven and Five Society, and exhibited regularly in their shows. During the war he moved with his family to rural Sussex where he lived and worked for the rest of his life, painting abstract landscapes in glorious colours on long, horizontal canvases. Hitchens produced a huge figurative mural for the English Folk Song and Dance Society at Cecil Sharp House in London. He was created CBE in 1958. Retrospectives of his work were held in Leeds in 1945 and at the Royal Academy in 1979.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- still life, abstract, London Group, daffodil, flower, spring
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Artist
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Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979)
- Title
- April Flowers, Mostly Daffodils
- Date
- 1975
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 51.00 cm, width: 61.50 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Christie's, 13 June 1980
- Inscription
- bl: Hitchens; label on stretcher: signed, inscribed with title and dated 1975
- Provenance
- With The Waddington Galleries (ref: B2357); collection of Marjorie Parr; collection of Mrs J. D. Merz; sold through Christie's, London, on 13 June 1980 (Lot 286); from which sale purchased by the Government Picture Collection
- GAC number
- 15059