Double portrait.

Friends (double portrait).

1922

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 73/169

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Hodgkins; label: Bourlet & Son, London; label: City of Manchester Art Gallery 15137; label: Double Portrait by Frances Hodgkins lent by Jane Saunders, 12 Victoria Rd Fallow Weld, Manchester; label: Isle of Purbeck Arts Club; label: Arts Council of Great Britain; label: Frances Hodgkins Double Portrait; label: Ernest Brown & Phillips, London; label: ACAG; label: QEII of NZ; on various labels in ink (Brasch’s hand): Brasch 36 a Heriot Row Dunedin. Hannah Ritchie left, Jane Saunders right. Charles Brasch Dunedin

610 x 770 mm

oil on canvas, stretched

Bought from the Leicester Gallery 1957: they were selling it on behalf of Miss Saunders. the sitters are F.H.’s friends Hannah Ritchies (left) and Jane Saunders. Reproduced in Penguin Modern Painters Frances Hodgkins where it is dated 1922 - Charles Brasch notebook.

Charles Brasch Bequest, 1973.

Portraits