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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen-Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  11 Aug 2016 ~ 6.30pm (NZST)
• Lot #:
  18
• Lot Description:
  Frances Hodgkins
  Ibiza
  oil on canvas
  712mm x 585mm
  signed Frances Hodgkins in brushpoint lower edge
• Provenance:
  Acquired by Geoffrey Gorer’s mother, Rée Gorer, either by direct purchase from Hodgkins or through a London gallery, probably the Lefevre Gallery. Upon her death, passed to her son Peter Gorer. After Peter Gorer’s death, his widow Elizabeth returned to her roots in Bar Harbor, Maine, taking the work with her. Upon Elizabeth’s death in 2016, the work came into the possession of her children, Peter Gorer and Rachel Gross.
• Exhibited:
  UNESCO International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Paris, 1946.
• References:
  Howell, Arthur Roland, Frances Hodgkins: Four Vital Years, London: Rockliff, 1951, p. 104.
• Notes:
  We would like to thank Joanne Drayton, Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Art Studies, University of Auckland and leading Frances Hodgkins scholar and Mary Kisler, Senior Curator, Mackelvie Trust Collection, International Art, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T?maki for their assistance with research, biographical and archival information.
• Estimate:
  NZ$230,000 - 330,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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