Roger Hilton CBE (1911-1975)
Gouache on paper
34.5 x 48.7cm
Provenance: Waddington Gallery
Born in 1911 and trained at the Slade School of Art, Hilton became one of the most distinctive voices associated with the St Ives and wider post-war British Abstraction scene.
Roger Hilton’s late work has a raw urgent energy that still feels contemporary. In the final two years of his life, while confined to bed in Cornwall, Hilton made the intimate “night letters” and related gouaches: insomniac, witty, sometimes bitter, and often hauntingly direct responses to art, illness, daily irritations, and his own mortality.
Hilton’s work is held in major public collections, including Tate, the British Museum, The V&A, The British Council Collection, The Government Art Collection, The National Portrait Gallery and many more.
Painted in 1974, Elephant by Roger Hilton is a vivid and highly expressive example of the artist’s late burst of artistic creativity. Executed with sweeping brushwork and animated by bold passages of red, ochre and blue against a deep grey form, the composition transforms the circus elephant into a playful semi abstract presence.
Roger Hilton CBE (1911-1975)
Gouache on paper
34.5 x 48.7cm
Provenance: Waddington Gallery
Born in 1911 and trained at the Slade School of Art, Hilton became one of the most distinctive voices associated with the St Ives and wider post-war British Abstraction scene.
Roger Hilton’s late work has a raw urgent energy that still feels contemporary. In the final two years of his life, while confined to bed in Cornwall, Hilton made the intimate “night letters” and related gouaches: insomniac, witty, sometimes bitter, and often hauntingly direct responses to art, illness, daily irritations, and his own mortality.
Hilton’s work is held in major public collections, including Tate, the British Museum, The V&A, The British Council Collection, The Government Art Collection, The National Portrait Gallery and many more.
Painted in 1974, Elephant by Roger Hilton is a vivid and highly expressive example of the artist’s late burst of artistic creativity. Executed with sweeping brushwork and animated by bold passages of red, ochre and blue against a deep grey form, the composition transforms the circus elephant into a playful semi abstract presence.