Peasant Family in a Field
Date
circa 1926
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Object Detail
Catalogue number
FH0735
Other titles
Family in a Field
Date
circa 1926
Brief Description
E H McCormick described this work as 'Peasant woman with four children grouped in foreground of ploughed field; row of trees indicated in background', which may be how it got its title. However rather than a child, the fourth figure appears to be a rag doll, clasped in her owner's hands. This is more easily viewed in an oil portrait (after Frances Hodgkins) of the single figure Girl with a Doll. Arguably the title 'peasant' may be a misnomer, for the woman is fashionably dressed. [MK}
Medium
watercolour on paper
Inscription
Signed lower left: Frances Hodgkins
Collection
Credit line
Private
Collection
Subject place
Provenance
Purchased by Mr Bond in Manchester, England, circa 1926.
1954 same owner, Auckland
1954 same owner, Auckland
