Ivon Hitchens 1893-1979

This painting is an early example of Hitchens' 'double-cube' format, that may have first been shown at his 1933 solo exhibition in London with Alex Reid and Lefevre. The painting relates to 'Shropshire Hills', 1930 (Private Collection) and 'Autumn Woodland', 1932, exhibited in Hitchens' exhibition 'Forty-Five Paintings' at the Serpentine Gallery in 1989. From UK public collections, the present work can be linked to 'Spring Woodland' (undated; Manchester Art Gallery) and Aberdeen Museum's 'Sussex Landscape', acquired in 1938 though likely painted a few years before.