Ivon Hitchens
Nude, Violet & Yellow
Estimate: 30.000 - 50.000 GBP
Price realised: 63.000 GBP
Price realised: 63.000 GBP
Description
Ivon Hitchens
1893 - 1979
Nude, Violet & Yellow
signed Hitchens (lower right); also signed Ivon HITCHENS, titled and inscribed (on a label attached to the stretcher bar)
oil on canvas
unframed: 52 by 105.5cm.; 20½ by 41½in.
framed: 63 by 117.5cm.; 24¾ by 46in.
Executed in 1959-60.
We are grateful to Peter Khoroche, author of Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, London, 2007, for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by R. Littleboy Esq | Theo Waddington Fine Art Ltd, London, where acquired by Mr Gordon Eberte
1893 - 1979
Nude, Violet & Yellow
signed Hitchens (lower right); also signed Ivon HITCHENS, titled and inscribed (on a label attached to the stretcher bar)
oil on canvas
unframed: 52 by 105.5cm.; 20½ by 41½in.
framed: 63 by 117.5cm.; 24¾ by 46in.
Executed in 1959-60.
We are grateful to Peter Khoroche, author of Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, London, 2007, for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by R. Littleboy Esq | Theo Waddington Fine Art Ltd, London, where acquired by Mr Gordon Eberte
Upper estimate price exceeded by 26 %.
The work Nude, Violet & Yellow by Ivon Hitchens was sold in the Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale auction at Sothebys in London in June 2021. The »bidding war« ended at GBP 63,000.00 (€ 73,411.38), 26% above the upper estimate. Admittedly, works by Ivon Hitchens have also been auctioned for a multiple of this price - according to our records, the highest result so far was achieved by the work Still Life with Azaleas in January 2020 with an auction result of GBP 275,000.00 (€ 327,109.44).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 26 % übertroffen
Die Arbeit Nude, Violet & Yellow von Ivon Hitchens wurde im Juni 2021 in der Auktion Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale bei Sothebys in London versteigert. Das »Bietergefecht« endete beim Preis von GBP 63.000,00 (€ 73.411,38) und damit 26% über dem oberen Schätzpreis. Freilich wurden Arbeiten von Ivon Hitchens auch schon für ein Vielfaches dieses Preises versteigert – das bisher höchste Ergebnis erzielte nach unseren Aufzeichnungen die Arbeit Still Life with Azaleas im Januar 2020 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 275.000,00 (€ 327.109,44).
Ivon Hitchens - Auction history
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