Dimensions: support: 679 x 1019 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Ivon Hitchens | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Ivon Hitchens' "Abstract Composition" from the Tate. The muted palette makes me feel like I'm looking at a memory, something not quite fully formed. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It’s like a whisper of forms, isn't it? Hitchens often blurred the line between abstraction and landscape, inviting us to wander through suggestion rather than depiction. Perhaps he wants us to intuit, not just see. Editor: Intuit… That’s a good way to put it. I was so focused on trying to decipher the shapes! Curator: Sometimes, letting go of the need to name is where the real conversation begins. What do you think? Editor: Absolutely. I'll definitely keep that in mind when looking at abstract works.
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Hitchens's work in the twenties consisted of landscape and still life painted in a manner providing evidence of his interest in Cézanne and Matisse. By 1932 his still lifes had become more abstract revealing the influence of Cubism and particularly of Braque. 'Abstract Composition' is one of Hitchens's most abstract paintings and was executed in the year that the Seven and Five exhibition was open only to painters and sculptors of abstract works of art. Nevertheless Hitchens retained the vestiges of representation. This painting is based on a view of a garden seat on the right (three parallel lines), with some sunflowers in the centre. Gallery label, August 2004
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