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Lot 105: FRANCES HODGKINS

Est: £8,000 GBP - £12,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 15, 2011

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FROM THE DARTINGTON HALL TRUST
1869 - 1947
THE TITHE BARN, CERNE ABBAS
signed, dated 1943 and inscribed No 1 Abandoned Cottage - Cerne Abbas
gouache and pencil
46 by 69cm.; 18¼ by 27¼in.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Paris, British Council, Artistic Forum: Nine Artists Exhibition, 1945 - 1946, cat. no.10, with tour to Marseilles, Prague, Brno and Bratislava;
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Modern Art Loan Exhibition, 1960, cat. no.10;
Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) Centenary Exhibition, April - November 1969 (not listed in the catalogue), with tour to Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christ Church, National Art Gallery, Wellington, Auckland City Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and Commonwealth Institute Gallery, London;
Colchester, The Minories, Frances Hodgkins the Late Work, 10th November 1990 - 5th January 1991, cat. no.37, with tour to Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Oriel 31, Welshpool & Newton, and Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield;
Dartington Hall, High Cross House, 2005 - 2010.

Literature

Arthur Rowland Howell and Mary Chamot, Frances Hodgkins, Four Vital Years, London, 1951, p.102 (dated as 1946).

Provenance

Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, where acquired by Dorothy Elmhirst, 16th May 1944 for £52.10.0
Gifted by Dorothy Elmhirst to The Dartington Hall Trust, 25th March 1965

Auction Details

Modern & Post-War British Art

by
Sotheby's
November 15, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK