January 1954
About this artwork
The most abstract phase in Hilton’s oeuvre was between 1953-5. This work, from 1954, bears the influence of Dutch artists Constant, with whom Hilton corresponded in 1953, and Piet Mondrian, whose work Hilton had seen in Amsterdam the same year. The paintings that Hilton produced during this period are characterised by a simplified structure composed from a small number of forms, which emphasise the flatness of the surface. Although drawing on Mondrian’s austerity and purely conceptual spatial organisation, the forms Hilton utilised were based on randomness and appear to float in space - turning the painted surface into what he described as a “space-creating mechanism”.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Roger Hilton (1911 - 1975) English
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title:January 1954
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date created:Dated 1954
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:125.00 x 102.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1981
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accession number:GMA 2289
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Roger Hilton
Roger Hilton
Hilton was born in Middlesex. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and also enjoyed a bohemian lifestyle in Paris during the 1930s. Hilton joined the army in 1939 and spent the years of 1942 to 1945 as a prisoner of war. He began painting in an abstract style in the early 1950s. From...