Eliot HODGKIN
Seven Little Baskets
Medium Pencil, pen and brown ink and brown wash, and watercolour, with touches of white heightening, on paper laid down on board
Dimension 42.3 x 32.9 cm (16⁵/₈ x 13 inches)
As Adrian Eeles has noted of this large sheet, ‘Unusually for Eliot, this drawing is not signed or dated…A guess would be the early 1970s. The three open baskets are filled with gooseberries and cherries. One of the baskets has survived in the Hodgkin family collection.’ A related tempera study of four of the same wicker baskets, signed but likewise undated, is in a private collection.
Medium: Pencil, pen and brown ink and brown wash, and watercolour, with touches of white heightening, on paper laid down on board
Dimension: 42.3 x 32.9 cm (16⁵/₈ x 13 inches)
Provenance: The estate of the artist
Mimi (Mrs. Eliot) Hodgkin, London, in 1989
Jack (later Sir Jack) Baer, London, by 1990
By descent to his wife, Diana, Lady Baer, in 2019
Her sale (‘The Joy of a Lifetime: The Estate of Sir Jack and Lady Baer’), Stansted Mountfitchet, Sworders, 4 October 2022, lot 80.
Literature: Adrian Eeles, ed., Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered, exhibition catalogue, 2019, pp.146-147, no.86.
Exhibition: London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Eliot Hodgkin, Painter & Collector, 1990, pp.82-83, no.76; Aylesbury, Waddesdon Manor, Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered, 2019, no.86.
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