Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Contemporary Art Society
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ivon-hitchens-1291" aria-label="More by Ivon Hitchens" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ivon Hitchens</a>
Winter Stage
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1938
architecture
East Grinstead, Moatlands Park
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
England, South East
England, Southern
features
forest
formal qualities
landscape
places
seasons
space
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, West
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
window
winter
<p>Hitchens’s art typifies the fusion of modern painting principles and earlier British art. The sculptural blocks of colour indicate his interest in the work of Paul Cézanne and the shallow space shows his debt to Georges Braque. The long, horizontal format and muted palette, however, link his work to the English landscape tradition of Gainsborough, Constable and Turner. This was painted in Sussex, which Hitchens would later make his home.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
30 August 2004 – 13 August 2007
2007-08-13
30 August 2004
2004-08-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-08-30
On England
Collection based display
11 February 2013 – 2 June 2013
2013-06-02
12 February 2013 – 2 June 2013
2013-06-02
2013-02-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-02-11
Looking at the View
Collection based display
29 June 2019 – 23 February 2020
2020-02-23
29 June 2019 – 13 October 2019
2019-10-13
2019-06-29
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2 November 2019 – 23 February 2020
2020-02-23
2019-11-02
Djanogly Art Gallery (Nottingham, UK)
2019-06-29
Ivon Hitchens: Space through Colour
Loan-out
Winter Stage
support: 591 × 1556 mm
frame: 822 × 1797 × 119 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1938
<p>Hitchens’s art typifies the fusion of modern painting principles and earlier British art. The sculptural blocks of colour indicate his interest in the work of Paul Cézanne and the shallow space shows his debt to Georges Braque. The long, horizontal format and muted palette, however, link his work to the English landscape tradition of Gainsborough, Constable and Turner. This was painted in Sussex, which Hitchens would later make his home.</p>

Display caption
2007-07-10T00:00:00
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<p><b>N04923</b> WINTER STAGE 1936
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Ivon Hitchens’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 23 1/4×61 1/4 (59×155·5).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1938.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. from the Lefevre Gallery 1937.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Lefevre Gallery, February–March 1937 (15), as ‘Winter Stage’; Venice Biennale, 1956 (British Pavilion, 1), as ‘Winter Stage - Moatlands Park’; British Council tour, Munich, Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam, 1956–7 (1); Arts Council, Tate Gallery and tour, 1963 (17).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Painter and Sculptor</i>, 11, No.3, 1959, p.4.</p>
<p>The artist confirmed (letter of 12 November 1957) that this was painted in 1936 from the loggia at Moatlands Park, near East Grinstead, Sussex, the home of Mr and Mrs Cecil Harris, where he often painted during the late 1920s and early 1930s. (See also <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hitchens-view-from-terrace-ashdown-forest-n05368" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05368</span></a>.)</p>
<p>Writing later from Lavington Common, he added (23 November 1957): ‘Mr and Mrs Cecil Harris were good friends who out of kindness invited a London captive to enjoy and paint on their beautifully wooded corner of Sussex thereby enabling me to carry on an affection for <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> autumn woodland scenes first developed in Shropshire in the darkly mysterious autumn <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a> of the Welsh border. A little of that quality survives about here at this time of year so that when a kind fate - in rather a strange manner - led us to settle here, I was able to sustain the continuity of these subjects which appealed to me. Thus Moatlands was really the link between Shropshire and now.’</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture East Grinstead, Moatlands Park emotions, concepts and ideas England England, South East England, Southern features forest formal qualities landscape places seasons space Sussex - non-specific Sussex, West UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions window winter