Frances Hodgkins

Broken Tractor

1942

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Artist: Frances Hodgkins 1869–1947
Medium: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: Support: 381 x 571 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1943
Reference: N05406

Catalogue entry

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

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