Untitled [The Piano Lesson]

Date
circa 1911 See full details

Object Detail

Catalogue number
FH0505
Date
circa 1911
Brief Description
Vertical washes have been used to rapidly map the walls of the large salon in which these women are sitting, the windows thrown wide open to the garden beyond, allowing cooling breezes to enter. Curving lines of colour dance and tumble across the middle ground, and while the two figures at the piano are clearly defined, the woman bending over the table on the left takes longer to identify. This may have been acquired or given as a gift to the owner, as it is the only watercolour in the group that Hodgkins has signed, indicating that she considers the work to be finished.
Medium
watercolour and charcoal
Dimensions
515 x 595 mm
Inscription
Signed lower right: Frances Hodgkins
Collection
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Institutional number
2007/8/5
Credit line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2007
Provenance
Private Collection, France.
Galerie Mathieu Neouze, Paris, France.
Purchased by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki from Galerie Mathieu Neouze, Paris, France, 2007.
Exhibition history
References
Catherine Hammond, Mary Kisler, Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys, Auckland University Press, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, 2019| p. [60] (colour ill. 3.21)

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