HODGKINS, Frances;
Pumpkins and Pimenti (or Still Life)
1935
Gouache and watercolour on paper
515 x 705mm (image); 900 x 1085 (frame)
This work is identified as FH1080 on the Complete Frances Hodgkins website.
The catalogue for Frances Hodgkins, 1869-1947 notes:
‘An inscription under the mount gives an alternative title of “Still Life” for this work and it is quite possible that this work was shown in 1937 at the Lefevre Galleries with this title (as No. 5). It is given a date of 1935 by Mary Chamot (Howell p. 101) which places it among the series of still lifes painted in the winter of 1935–36 at Tossa de Mar, Gerona, Spain. From this address Frances Hodgkins sent a “set, series or suite” of works to Duncan McDonald of the Lefevre Galleries with an accompanying letter: … “You will see that I have put a large amount of Frances Hodgkins into them even into the joyless marrows and I do hope that you will not say that this woman’s work is not worth a penny a day to me. I am sure you will realise that I have had to adapt myself to local conditions and to do the best I can—” Also in this series is “Marrows and Peppers, Tossa”. (Howell p. 119) …’[1]
Marrows and Peppers, Tossa is ostensibly the work identified as FH1080 on the Complete Frances Hodgkins website.
[1] Frances Hodgkins, 1869-1947 (London: Whitford and Hughes, 1990), n.p.
Inscriptions
Frances Hodgkins [l.l.] Still Life [l.r., under mount]Exhibition History
Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau, 4 May to 1 September 2019 (toured)
Frances Hodgkins: Forgotten Still Life, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau, 22 August 2015 to 31 July 2016
Frances Hodgkins: Leitmotif, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau, 12 November 2005 to 2 April 2006 (toured)
Frances Hodgkins, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 19 September 1993 to 30 January 1994
Frances Hodgkins, 1869–1947, Whitford and Hughes, London, 17 July to 14 August January 1990, cat. no. 23
Frances Hodgkins: Works from Private Collections: An Exhibition Held to Celebrate the Opening of the New Store and Gallery, Kirkcaldie & Stains Limited, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 1 to 21 August 1989, cat. no. 27
Frances Hodgkins, 1869–1947: A Centenary Exhibition, organised by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti, April to May 1969, cat. no. 81 (toured)
Frances Hodgkins Exhibition, Hambledon Gallery, Blandford Forum, Dorset, 15 October to 19 November 1966
Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John: A Memorial Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 7 May to 15 June 1952
An Exhibition of Pictures by Frances Hodgkins, sponsored by the Isle of Purbeck Arts Club in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, 6 March to 24 May 1948, cat. no. 41
? Frances Hodgkins, New Paintings and Water-colours, Lefevre Galleries, London, October to November 1937, cat. no. 5
References
Frances Hodgkins, 1869-1947 (London: Whitford and Hughes, 1990), n.p.
Iain Buchanan, Michael Dunn, and Elizabeth Eastmond, Frances Hodgkins: Paintings and Drawings (Tāmaki Makaurau: Auckland University Press, 1994), 149.
Shay Docking, ‘Frances Hodgkins and a New Tradition’, Ascent 5 (December 1969): 67.
Myfanwy Evans, Frances Hodgkins (London: Penguin Books, 1948), pl. 13.
Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler (eds), Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys (Tāmaki Makaurau: Auckland University Press and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2019), 161, 162 (ill.).
Sarah Hillary, Frances Hodgkins: Forgotten Still Life (Tāmaki Makaurau: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2015).
Arthur Howell, Frances Hodgkins: Four Vital Years (London: Rockliff, 1951), 101.
Mary Kisler, Frances Hodgkins: Leitmotif (Tāmaki Makaurau: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2005), 12.
Samantha Niederman, Frances Hodgkins (London: Eiderdown Books, 2019).
Myfanwy Piper (née Evans), Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Frances Hodgkins, 1869–1947 (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1952).
Jill Trevelyan, Frances Hodgkins (Te Whanganui-a-Tara: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 1993), 30.
Provenance
1984–
Fletcher Trust Collection, purchased from Dunbar Sloane, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 25 October 1984
c. 1937–1983
Collection of Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark of Saltwood (1903–83), purchased from the Lefevre Galleries, London, c. 1937