Woodland Interior, 1930-2 circa
oil on canvas
51 x 102 cm
20 1/8 x 40 1/8 in
20 1/8 x 40 1/8 in
signed
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The present work was painted at a time when Hitchens was exhibiting with the Seven and Five society alongside Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Christopher Wood, as well as a...
The present work was painted at a time when Hitchens was exhibiting with the Seven and Five society alongside Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Christopher Wood, as well as a friend of Henry Moore. Alongside his contemporaries, Hitchens had been absorbing the ideas of Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
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), 'Leaning Tree', 1932 (reproduced in Peter Khoroche monograph) and 'Autumn Woodland', 1932, exhibited in Hitchens' exhibition 'Forty-Five Paintings' at the Serpentine Gallery in 1989. From UK public collections, the 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.
The location is unknown, as during this time Hitchens was spending the autumn months travelling around locations to which he found himself most attracted, though it may well depict the sites he visited in the late 1920s and early 1930s in Shropshire or the Welsh Marches.
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), 'Leaning Tree', 1932 (reproduced in Peter Khoroche monograph) and 'Autumn Woodland', 1932, exhibited in Hitchens' exhibition 'Forty-Five Paintings' at the Serpentine Gallery in 1989. From UK public collections, the 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.
The location is unknown, as during this time Hitchens was spending the autumn months travelling around locations to which he found himself most attracted, though it may well depict the sites he visited in the late 1920s and early 1930s in Shropshire or the Welsh Marches.
Exhibitions
possibly London, Alex Reid and Lefevre, 'Ivon Hitchens', 19332
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