Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)

Untitled, (Wooded Landscape)

oil on canvas, framed,

signed lower left,

49.5 x 45cm (image)

68 x 64cm (frame)

Provenance

Zwemmer Gallery, London. Purchased by Robert Donat for his wife Ella Annesley Voysey (Donat) at the Zwemmer Gallery circa 1934. In 1934 The Zwemmer Gallery held an exhibition of Ivon Hitchens work titled Objective Abstraction. It has been suggested that the landscape might be from his trip to Shropshire in the thirties.

Catalogue notes

Family tradition held that Robert and Ella visited the exhibition at the Zwemmer gallery individually, as they often had to do with their busy lives. Ella fell in love with the landscape painting, but did not buy it. She returned to the exhibition the following day, and was devastated to see that the painting had sold, only finding out later, that her husband was the buyer – they had both fallen in love with the same painting!

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