© Photo: The Estate of Eliot Hodgkin

Pied Beauty

06/01/1977

Tempera

12.5 x 23 cm (5 x 9 1/4 in)

Exhibitions

  • Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1990
  • Royal Academy, 1977
  • Notes

    The title of the painting was inspired by a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty.
    The bean was grown at a Lime tree House, Bampton, and sent to Hodgkin by post.

    Tags

    Been, Beens, Egg, Eggs, Feather, Feathers, Ivy, Leaf, Leaves,