39. Frances Hodgkins 1869 - 1947
Country Colour, Purbeck
Gouache on paper
49.5 x 65 cm
Signed & dated 1944
est. $45,000 - 65,000
Relative Size: Country Colour, Purbeck
Relative size

Provenance:

Ex collection of Sir Lennox Berkley, composer 1903 - 1989 Estate of New Zealand born pianist Colin Horsley OBE, 1920 - 2012, Isle of Man

Exhibited:

The Leferve Gallery, London, original label affixed verso

British Council Fine Arts Department Exhibition Paris 1945, cat no. 8, original label affixed verso

Reference:

p. 100 Four Vital Years, by Arthur R Howell, forward by John Piper, Rockliff 1951

Hodgkins spent the last years of her life in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, working mainly on still lifes, landscapes and domestic scenes.

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