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Evie Hone (1894-1955) WINDOWSILL STILL LIFE WITH OIL LAMP AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS signed lower right; ...

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Evie Hone (1894-1955) WINDOWSILL STILL LIFE WITH OIL LAMP AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS signed lower right; ...
Evie Hone (1894-1955)
WINDOWSILL STILL LIFE WITH OIL LAMP AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS
signed lower right; inscribed on reverse
oil on canvas
61 by 91cm., 24 by 36in.
Provenance:
With a former framing label of the Waddington Galleries, Dublin, on reverse
Windowsill Still Life was most probably painted circa 1920 at the home of Evie
Hone’s sister, in Gloucestershire, England. It is an extremely rare, early work,
in which can be seen the influence of the Ukrainian artist Bernard Meninsky
(1891-1950), under whom Hone studied for a brief period at the Central School of
Arts and Crafts in London, shortly after the First World War. The shallow
spatial recession and abbreviated forms suggest Meninsky’s impact on the young
artist and show her to have already pulled away from the gentle British
impressionism of Sickert and the New English Art Club painters. Already on the
‘brink’ of cubism, her work was shortly to undergo a dramatic change when, at
the advice of Meninsky and in the company of Maine Jellett, she travelled to
Paris in 1920, there to study under André Lhote and Albert Gleizes. (With thanks
to Mr & Mrs Oliver Hone for their kind assistance in dating this work).
€20,000-€30,000 (£14,000-£21,000 sterling approx.)