Winter Stage (1936)

Ivon Sydney Hitchens

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Canvas, Oil

Physical Object Description:

Long horizontal format; view leading from an abstract space into an landscape. Inscribed: ‘Ivon Hitchens’ bottom right.

Dimensions:

59.1 x 155.6 cm

Accession Number:

N04923

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1938

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd (The Lefevre Gallery) by Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1937; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1938

Relationship:

John Maynard Keynes Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd (The Lefevre Gallery), London Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Subject:

Landscape

Winter Stage (1936) was painted from the loggia at Moatlands Park, the home of Mr and Mrs Cecil Harris, near East Grinstead where Hitchens often painted during the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was later to make Sussex his home after his house in London was bombed during WW2 in 1940. He acquired a small area of woodland on Lavington Common (near Petworth) where he initially lived in a caravan before augmenting it with a series of buildings, including an artist’s studio.

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