HODGKINS, FRANCES (1869-1947)

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"Old Street In Dinan, Brittany, France" (aka. Village Market) (1902)
Watercolour
36 x 26cm
Signed lower right
*Collection of W.G.H.Field, Waikanae
*No.178 “Works Of Frances Hodgkins In New Zealand” 
(Auckland City Gallery, 1954)
 
Hodgkins was one of New Zealand & Britain's most prestigious, pioneering, decorated and influential artists. Trained at the Dunedin Art School and under Girolamo Nerli, before moving to London in 1901. She was the first New Zealand artist to be hung in the Royal Academy in 1903, and held her first solo show in London in 1907. In 1908, she was the first woman to work as an art instructor at the famous Colarossi's Academy in Paris, exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and even established a School Of Watercolour. After the War, she worked between France & Britain and worked with/influenced up-and-coming British artists, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson & Henry Moore. She was highly considered among British avant-garde society and by the later stages of her career was known as a key figure in British Modernism. 
 
This piece was part of a series of early watercolours of Dinan in Brittany in 1902 and is very RARE.