Tangled Pool no 2

oil on canvas

40.6 x 73.7 cm

Signed ‘Hitchens’ lower left; further signed and inscribed ‘IVON HITCHENS/Greenleaves/Lavington Common/Petworth Sussex ‘Tangled Pool no 2’ on a label attached to the stretcher.

Tangled Pool no 2

1947

Provenance 

Sotheby’s London, 6th February 1985, lot 504
Phillips London, 18th June 1985, lot 155
Private Collection UK, 1985-2015 (acquired at the above sale)

The present work is number two in a series of ten ‘Tangled Pool’ paintings dating from 1946-47. 
Other examples from this series are in the collections of :-
The British Council (no. 5)
The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrowgate (no. 1)
Birmingham Museums Trust (no.9)
The National Gallery of Scotland (no.10)