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Roger Hilton

Figure in Yellow Ground

On Loan
Wakefield Permanent Art Collection (The Hepworth Wakefield)
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B.1911 | D.1975

oil on canvas
61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
Painted in 1970.

Wakefield Permanent Art Collection (The Hepworth Wakefield). Accepted under the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme by HM Government from the collection of Dr T. W. Sutherland and allocated to Wakefield Permanent Art Collection, 1992.

Provenance

Wakefield Permanent Art Collection (The Hepworth Wakefield). Accepted under the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme by HM Government from the collection of Dr T. W. Sutherland and allocated to Wakefield Permanent Art Collection, 1992.

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Essay

Hilton was a prominent member of the St Ives group of artists, visiting regularly from 1957 and moving permanently to Cornwall in 1965. This is one of the artist’s last oil paintings, made as he entered a period of ill health. Despite this, the work has a great sense of energy, with its spontaneously drawn charcoal lines and bright, unblended areas of colour. ‘I like my colours dynamic and strongly contrasted’, Hilton wrote, ‘After all, one prefers something alive to something dead.’ This, and Frost’s work nearby, offer different interpretations of Hepworth’s interest in the relation between the figure and the landscape.

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