ARR * Hitchens (Ivon Sydney, 1893-1979). Portrait of a young woman, oil on canvas, head and shoulders portrait half-profile to right of a young woman with short auburn hair, wearing a pink shirt, signed lower left, 37 x 31cm (14.5 x 12.25ins), period painted wood frame with patterned decoration, glazed, overall size including frame 59 x 53cm (23.25 x 21ins)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the estate of the late Michael Sutherland, recently removed from Ettington, Warwickshire. It is believed that this portrait depicts the maternal grandmother of Michael Sutherland as a young woman, from the early 1920s. Ivon Hitchens' style was already modernist in character by the mid 1920s, and became increasingly abstract by the mid 1930s.