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Artist: Ivon Hitchens
Darkening Pool, 1961, Greenleaves, Petworth, Sussex
By Ivon Hitchens
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
‘ My pictures are painted to be listened to ‘Ivon Hitchens
One of the foremost Modernists of his age, Hitchens was known as ‘ the painter in the woods ’.
This picture is an exception...
Category
1960s Abstract Ivon Hitchens Art
Materials
Oil
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The Blue Door, Oil on Canvas Painting by Ivon Hitchens, 1972
By Ivon Hitchens
Located in Kingsclere, GB
The Blue Door, Oil on Canvas Painting by Ivon Hitchens 1893-1979, 1972
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
41 x 109 cm
16 1/8 x 42 7/8 in
Signed and dated; titled and inscribed on a label attached to the stretcher
This depicts the back door of Greenleaves, the Sussex home that Hitchens built for his family after being bombed out of London in 1940. The door had become a regular motif in Hitchens’ work by 1972, as had the distinctive use of a wide-format canvas, where guides the viewer across the surface. Hitchens’ concern lay in expressing the experience of a place, rather than creating a mere likeness, ‘my pictures are painted to be “listened” to’ he declared in a 1956 article for the Royal College of Art journal. His later work shows his commitment to ‘visual sound’, becoming brighter in colour and more fractious in form: ‘visual sounds is of first and greatest importance. Without it the picture is useless’.
Provenance
Private Collection, London
Ivon Hitchens was a British painter, mainly of landscapes.
'Setting up canvas and box in all weathers, I seek first to unravel the essential meaning of my subject, which is synonymous with its structure, and to understand my own psychological reactions to it. Next I must decide how best it can be rendered in paint, not by a literal copying of objects but by combinations and juxtapositions of lines, forms, planes, tones, colours etc., such as will have an aesthetic meaning when put down on canvas ... My pictures are to be listened to.' (The Artist, personal memorandum, c.1954)
"Hitchens was born in London, son of the painter Alfred Hitchens, and studied at St John's Wood School of Art (1911-12) and the Royal Academy Schools (several years on and off between 1912 and 1919). In 1920, he became a founder member of the progressive 'Seven & Five Society' and was the only artist to belong to it throughout its entire lifetime until its demise in 1935. During this time, he experimented with pure abstraction (he exhibited as one of the 'Objective Abstractionists' in 1934), but by the late 1930s he had created a highly distinctive style on the borderline between abstraction and figuration in which broad, fluid areas of lush colour, typically on a canvas of wide format, evoke but do not represent the forms of the English countryside that were his inspiration. In 1940, following the bombing of his London studio, he settled permanently at Lavington Common, near Petworth, in Sussex. His work altered little from then, apart from the fact that his palette changed from naturalistic browns and greens to more vivid colours such as bright yellows and purples. Contrary to what often happens when an artist remains constant in one style over several decades, Hitchens's work did not become stereotyped or banal. In addition to landscapes, Hitchens painted flowers and figure subjects (usually nudes) and he did several large murals, for example at Nuffield College, Oxford (1959), and the University of Sussex (1963). His work is represented in the Tate Gallery, London, and many public collections. His son John Hitchens (1940- ) is also a painter, mainly of landscapes and flower pieces."
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, 1999
Other members of the Seven and Five Society included Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, John Piper, Cedric Morris, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood and David Jones. They were the a driving force in the 1930s London...
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20th Century Ivon Hitchens Art
Materials
Canvas
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