1893 - 1979 Born the son of landscape artist Alfred Hitchens. Educated at the Bedales School followed by a year of training at the St. Johns Wood School of Art.  He grew up in Berkshire, moved to New Zealand for two years after suffering form a severe illness and retuned to England where he lived for the remained of his life. In 1922, he became a founding member of Seven and Five Society.  In that same year he had his first one-man exhibition at The Mayer Galley in London.  In 1931, he became a member of The London Group and twenty years later he was awarded the Purchase Prize in the Arts Council Festival of Britain – 60 paintings in 51.  In 1955 his first monograph, written by Patrick Heron, was published and in the following year a retrospective exhibition of his work was arranged by The British Council for the Venice Biennale.  His work in the early thirties came under the influence of Braque.  He contributed to the ‘Objective Abstractions’ at the Zwemmer Galley.  He continued for a short period in producing abstract pictures, i.e. ‘Triangle to Beyond’ in 1936.  From this point on, his work was all painted on traditional seascape format in the form of abstract landscapes. After the bombing of his London home in 1940 he moved to Sussex.  In this period he began to paint figures indoors and outdoors.  Even though he continued to paint nudes in his landscapes, the majority of his works thereafter were abstracted landscapes, recognisable by his brushstrokes and individual sweeps of colour.

Untitled Nude
Lithograph
1974
ed 375
61x45
exc frame £900
SOLD