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Untitled [Checking the baskets]
Date
1906
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Object Detail
Catalogue number
FH0504
Date
1906
Brief Description
Some of Frances Hodgkins' early European market scenes try to capture every last detail, but in Loading the Cart and Checking the Baskets the artist has pared back her love of patterning, defining forms with broad pools of colour and focusing on reflections of light. Hodgkins may have used some of these sketches to demonstrate techniques to the ever-growing group, mainly women, who joined her summer classes in Holland and France. Equally, they could have been aide-mémoires that she could draw on when the weather prevented her from working
outdoors.
outdoors.
Medium
watercolour and charcoal
Dimensions
500 x 606 mm
Collection
Institutional number
2007/8/4
Credit line
Auckland
Art
Gallery
Toi
o
Tāmaki,
purchased
with
assistance
from
the
Auckland
Decorative
&
Fine
Arts
Society,
2007
Exhibition history