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Details
- Date
- 1947
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 52.1 x 116.8 cm stretcher; 76.0 x 140.5 x 7.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., brown paint "Hitchens". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1957
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9305
- Copyright
- © Estate of Ivon Hitchens/DACS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Ivon Hitchens
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About
'Evening pool' was painted in the grounds of Hitchens home at Lavington Common near Petworth, Sussex; the property had two small artificial ponds near the house, the Downs visible in the distance. Hitchens and his wife Mollie moved there in 1940 after their London home was damaged by a bomb during World War II. In the late 1930s Hitchens had frequently painted in Sussex, after the move the woodlands there became his main subject matter.
Hitchens worked outdoors, directly from nature and often painted using a horizontal double square format as this encourages the viewers’ eye to move from left to right.
Hitchens was formally trained attending the Royal Academy of Arts and while there is evidence of the influences of traditional English landscape painting in his work, his interest in modern art especially the work of Cezanne and Braque is demonstrated through his use of blocks of colour, space and depth.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1957, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Feb 1958–16 Mar 1958
18 British paintings from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Jun 1965–Jul 1965
Modern Britain 1900-1960, NGV: International, Melbourne, 15 Nov 2007–24 Feb 2008
Landscapes of pleasure, from Monet to Hockney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Apr 2016–17 Jul 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Dorothy and Douglas Dundas, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'A visit to Ivon Hitchens', pg. 74-5, Sydney, Jul 1961, 74 (illus.).
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 87 (illus.).
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Ted Gott, Laurie Benson and Sophie Matthiesson, Modern Britain 1900-1960, Melbourne, 2007, 263 (colour illus.).
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 102. cat.no. 976
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Justin Paton, Look, 'The great outdoors', pg.34-5, Sydney, May 2016, 34.
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Provenance
Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Alex Reid & Lefevre 1957