Frances HodgkinsBroken Tractor 1942

N05406 BROKEN TRACTOR 1942
 
Inscr. on mount ‘Broken Tractor 1942 No.6’ b.l.
Gouache, 15×22 1/2 (38×57).
Purchased from the Lefevre Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1943.
Exh: Lefevre Gallery, March–April 1943 (15).
Repr: Exh. cat., Tate Gallery Continental Exhibition, Paris, 1946, No.29; Sir John Rothenstein, British Art since 1900, 1962, pl.11.

In 1942 the artist was living at Corfe Castle where this was probably painted.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I