Helen Hitchings female bust, plaster in bronze patina, inscribed to base in pencil ‘Made by me - an exercise in the Antique, about 1943/1944’, Helen Hitchings’, 23 cm height, 23 cm width, 15 cm depth. Helen Hitchings is a New Zealand art dealer, best known for New Zealand’s first modernist dealer gallery opened in Wellington, 1949. Hitchings also designed pieces of pottery which were commercially produced and sold through her gallery.