- Artist
- Roger Hilton 1911–1975
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 660 × 660 mm
frame: 699 × 699 × 43 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1958
- Reference
- T00173
Catalogue entry
T00173 JANUARY 1957 1957
Inscr. on back, ‘Roger Hilton Jan. 1957’.
Canvas, 26×26 (66×66).
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1958.
Exh: Metavisual, Tachiste, Abstract Painting in England To-day, Redfern Gallery, April–May 1957 (148), as ‘Painting, 1957, I’; 50 Ans de Peinture abstraite, Galerie Creuze, Paris, May–June 1957 (165); I.C.A., February–March 1958 (20, repr.).
Repr: Connoisseur, CXLVIII, 1961, p.313.
Painted at St Ives in the spring of 1957, this was the first of a series. It was painted just before a picture of the same size purchased by the Contemporary Art Society which is also non-figurative.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
Explore
- abstraction(8,615)
-
- from recognisable sources(3,634)
-
- landscape(1,191)
- UK counties(19,585)
-
- Cornwall(1,034)
- England(19,202)
- England, South West(3,507)
- England, Southern(8,982)