Dimensions: support: 781 x 1111 mm frame: 940 x 1270 x 60 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Ivon Hitchens | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Ivon Hitchens’s "Autumn Composition, Flowers on a Table," currently residing here at the Tate. It's awash in muted tones; I find its abstracted form rather charming. What strikes you when you look at this piece? Curator: Oh, it's like a memory of a garden fading into winter, isn't it? The colours melt into one another, shapes barely holding their form. Hitchens asks us to feel the essence of the flowers, not just see them. Do you feel the same? Editor: I do, that's a lovely way to put it. It’s less about exact representation, and more about evoking a mood. I didn’t realize how much I saw until you asked. Curator: Precisely! It's like finding poetry in the everyday.
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In this painting Hitchens used a palette knife, rags to wipe away paint and vigorous brush strokes to create an active surface. Painted in his Hampstead studio this work ‘dates from the kind of surroundings and the period of [Hitchens’s] urban life - from about 1920-40 before the full impact of nature and country living.’ The shallow space and overlapping forms suggest the influence of the post-cubist still lifes of Braque. So does the use of accents of colour that punctuate an otherwise sombre painting. The strength of the colour, however, is more suggestive of Matisse. Gallery label, September 2016
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