Purbeck Farm
Date
1942
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Object Detail
Catalogue number
FH1218
Date
1942
Brief Description
Close friend Geoffrey Gorer, a well-known writer and social anthropologist, felt that the originality of Hodgkins’ work lay in her sensitivity to colour and her calligraphic manner of painting. In Purbeck farm, the thickly applied gouache becomes as much decorative as descriptive. To animate the matte paint finish Hodgkins modified the dry gouache by drawing over it with graphite, which gives a certain sheen to the surface. (Frances Hodgkins - Leitmotif, 2005)
Medium
gouache
Dimensions
515 x 638 mm
Inscription
Signed and dated: Frances Hodgkins 1942
Collection
Institutional number
1955/32
Credit line
Auckland
Art
Gallery
Toi
o
Tāmaki,
purchased
1955
Subject place
Provenance
Purchased by the Auckland City Art Gallery (now Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki0 from R Abbot, 1955.
Exhibition history