Frances Hodgkins ! Is this a watercolor painting?! Please let me know, really appreciate your help

I bought this in a flea market yesterday for 100 Kr (10 Euro) and i saw the signature and stamp on the paper,I didn't believe my eyes,is this a collotype of the original painting??

 

The size and everything is exactly like the original painting, I have tried to get you a close up of the painting I have to see if this is a collotype or watercolor?!

 

I'd guess colotype, perhaps with some hand colored enhancements (no telling who did those).

 

But the they did some collotype after the original painting. Thanks for your reply https://www.franceshodgkins.com/pumpkins1935

 

Collotype, 52 x 70 cm
Published by Ganymed, 1952 from the 1935 gouache

The image used to produce the present original collotype “Pumpkins” is that of the gouache Pumpkins and Pimenti (circa 1935) owned at the time by Sir Kenneth Clark, Director of the National Gallery, and now held in the collection of The Fletcher Trust.

 

But here's your blind stamp (left) against a Ganymed blind stamp (right):

 

Looking at the photos you have shown, it looks like only one color has been added by hand as an overpaint, and no telling how extensively. The other colors look mechanical.

 

Thank you again I will search and and se if there are more collotype made by others. Please let me know if you find something

 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19455220802630594

There were two examples of watercolours from the AAG collection which demonstrated that Hodgkins also reused her papers. Eggs and Ferns, c.1931 (1954/9/3) and Phoenician Pottery and Gourds both showed evidence of the artist wiping out images that she may not have been happy with and using the sheet again, turning it over to paint on the other side (Fig. 2). Similar examples are known in other collections such as Tate Britain, the watercolour and gouache Portrait of Kitty West (N07814) being one of them. The reason for this practice may have been that Hodgkins was fairly poor for most of her career and often relied on friends to supply her with materials.

 

So is this collotype worth anything?

 

Haven't a clue. Cam you get a clearer photo of the blindstamp?

 

Unlikely to track the mark even if it was clear. As indistinct as it is... not much hope.

 

I opened the frame and took a picture verso.

 

I can't make head nor tails of it.

You need to find another copy of the print that has the same blind stamp. It's possible the Ganymed changed their stamp over time. I do not know.

 

It looks a little like a sheaf of wheat.

 

Just received from NZ that this is a original collotype after Frances Mary Hodgkins