April Flowers, Mostly Daffodils

Location

Country: USA
City: New York
Place: UK Mission to the United Nations

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.

Places

Subjects

still life, abstract, London Group, daffodil, flower, spring

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

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