Lot 40
Frances Hodgkins
Landscape, Ibiza
gouache on paper
signed and inscribed August Afternoon and dated 1941
460mm x 615mm
Realised: $55,000 August 2011

Exhibited: Hampstead, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Catalogue of the Greater Portion of a Collection of Modern English Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Sculpture Belonging to W. A. Evill, March 1955, cat. no.43 (catalogued as Landscape in Snow); London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Water Colours and Sculpture, April - May 1961, (part IV- section 3) cat. no.15 (catalogued as Landscape in Snow); Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965, cat. no. 61. Reference: Arthur Howell, Frances Hodgkins, Four Vital Years, Rockliff, London, 1951, p. 102 (catalogued as Landscape Under Snow).
Provenance: The Leicester Galleries, London.Acquired by Wilfrid A. Evill, March 1942, for the sum of £21.0.0; bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963. Wilfrid Ariel Evill was a solicitor in London whose clients included many leading British artists and figures in the arts. Regarded as one of the most significant collectors of contemporary British art of the mid twentieth century, Evill began collecting in late 1920s and continued until his death in 1963. He began to collect seriously in around 1928, at the time when he met Stanley Spencer and purchased one of his paintings. He later also became the artist’s lawyer, and one of the most important private collector’s of his work. He was a friend of other artists including William Roberts and Graham Sutherland, acquiring their works as well as work by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, then in the 1950s important new works by Patrick Heron. Wilfrid Evill was the guardian to Honor Frost, who inherited his art collection in 1963.

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