Two Poppies on a Blue Table

Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979)

Oil on canvas

1957

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Downing Street
  • 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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    Title
    Two Poppies on a Blue Table
    Date
    1957
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 60.00 cm, width: 113.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Leicester Galleries, September 1957
    Inscription
    br: Hitchens
    Provenance
    Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in September 1957
    GAC number
    3894