- Artist
- Ivon Hitchens 1893–1979
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 622 × 1384 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Howard Bliss in memory of his brother, Kennard, killed 1916 on The Somme
- Reference
- T01205
Catalogue entry
Ivon Hitchens 1893-1979
T01205 October Painting, Yellow and Blue 1963
Inscribed ‘Hitchens’ b.l. Also title and dimensions in artist’s hand on labels on the stretcher.
Canvas, 24¼ x 54½ (61.5 x 138.5).
Presented by Howard Bliss, 1970, in memory of his brother Kennard, killed 1916 on the Somrne.
Coll: Howard Bliss.
Exh: Paintings by Ivon Hitchens from the Howard Bliss Collection, South London Art Gallery, July–August 1967 (31), and tour of England.
The artist wrote (letter of 20 December 1971) that he painted the subject of T01205 in ‘several versions following my usually normal procedure of painting numerous canvases during the solving of the problems set up in trying to interpret some particular aspect of nature or place’. He added in a letter of 5 April 1972: ‘This is a painting created in a locality of trees, between which are distant views. It is a created painting, not a copy from nature of this particular locality.’
‘There appear to be four versions, 1. T01205 apparently the largest of the four. 2. “November Painting, Blue and Purple” 1963, 21 x 52 in. [private collection], 3. “December Painting, Green and Ochre” 1963, 20¼ x 41 ½ in. [private collection]. 4. Unfinished and untitled, 21 x 52 in. [in artist’s possession].’
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1970–1972, London 1972.