PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF KATHARINE 'KITTY' CHURCH (LOTS 15-42)
FRANCES HODGKINS (1869-1947)
Still life with fruits
signed Frances Hodgkins (lower right) dedicated For/Kitty+Anthony/from (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and gouache
47.5 x 62 cm (18 3/4 x 24 1/2 in)

PROVENANCE:
Kitty Church and Anthony West, a gift from the artist

EXHIBITED:
Purbeck, The Isle of Purbeck Arts Club, Frances Hodgkins, March 1948

‘I had the happiest of long weekends with the Wests,
and have painted three quite attractive canvases..They
are two delightful dears, Anthony and Kitty – I loved
my visit to them’

Frances Hodgkins in a letter to her dealer Duncan
Macdonald of the Lefevre Gallery quoted in (J.
Duncalfe, Katharine Church: A life in colour, The later
years, Harrogate, 2015, p. 35)