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Courtyard, Corfe Castle (1942)

Frances Mary Hodgkins

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Courtyard, Corfe Castle (1942)

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Gouache, Ink, Charcoal

Physical Object Description:

Signed and dated lower right in ink: Frances Hodgkins / 1942

Dimensions:

49.7 x 61.7 cm

Accession Number:

7434

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1944

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased by John Rothenstein (1901-1992) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1943; presented to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1944

Relationship:

John Knewstub Maurice Rothenstein Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

In 1942, during WW2, Frances Hodgkins was living at Corfe Castle, a village in Dorset, England. She showed recent work, alongside Picasso and other contemporaries, at the Lefevre Gallery in London between March to April 1943 where Tate Director and CAS Executive Committee member John Rothenstein (1901-1992) purchased this gouache for the Contemporary Art Society.

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Frances Mary Hodgkins
Courtyard, Corfe Castle (1942)

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