Eliot Hodgkin

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) Douglas Fitzpatrick signed and inscribed 'DOUGLAS FITZPATRICK/BY/ELIOT HODGKIN' (centre right) pencil, ink, watercolour and gouache 23 x 18½ in. (58.4 x 47 cm.) Hodgkin rarely painted portraits and it is likely that this work was commissioned by the sitter or his friend Henry Thomas Upcher who was also a friend of Hodgkin's from Harrow School. Fitzpatrick loved music and had an affinity for cars (he owned a Metallurgique, fitted with an airship engine, that he raced in the Brighton Speed Trials). He also served in the Navy and RAF during the Second World War and taught the infamous pilot Douglas Bader to fly.

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) Morning Glories II signed and dated 'Eliot Hodgkin/21 VII 58' (lower left) tempera on board 4¾ x 9 1/8 in. (12.1 x 23.2 cm.) with Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner. Property from the Collection of Fleur Cowles Please see the note to lot 251, Roses by Graham Sutherland, also from the Collection of Fleur Cowles.

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) Max's baby shoes signed and dated 'Eliot Hodgkin/Nov '46.' (upper right) tempera 5½ x 6¼ in. (14 x 15.9 cm.) Mr David H. Patey. London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, An Exhibition of Tempera Painting, May - June 1946, catalogue not traced. Max is Hodgkin's son and the present work depicts his shoes which he wore as a baby. We are grateful to Max Hodgkin for his assistance in cataloguing lots 14 and 15.

Lot Description Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) Nine strawberries signed and dated 'Eliot Hodgkin 12 VI 55' (lower right) tempera on board 4 x 5½ in. (10.2 x 14 cm.) Lot Condition Report I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to its terms. View Condition Report Provenance with Leicester Galleries, London. Purchased by the present owner at the 1990 exhibition. Exhibited London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Eliot Hodgkin Painter & Collector, March - April 1990, no. 33. View Lot Notes › Nine strawberries formed part of a collection of works by Eliot Hodgkin that hung in Overton's Restaurant on St. James's Street, London until the late 1980s. At the time Overton's was owned by Isidore Kerman, the famed divorce lawyer, property developer and racehorse owner.

Lot Description Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) Aubergines, peppers and mushrooms signed and dated 'Eliot Hodgkin./July 55' (upper left) tempera on board 5¾ x 10¾ in. (14.6 x 27.3 cm.) Exhibited London, Leicester Galleries, Eliot Hodgkin: Recent Tempera Paintings; Terry Frost: New Paintings; Cecil Collins: New Paintings and Drawings, February 1956, catalogue not traced. View Lot Notes › We are grateful to Max Hodgkin for his assistance cataloguing the present lot, and lots 10 and 42.