In 1955 the Tate Gallery had the privilege of exhibiting Lady Hulton’s collection of 27 works by Paul Klee.
Though Klee is the artist for whom Lady Hulton has a very special preference, Sir Edward and Lady Hulton also possess paintings, drawings and sculptures by a number of other modern masters. Their collections have very largely been formed since the war and the works have been acquired more or less chronologically.
Within a few years they have come to possess one of the most important collections of modern art in England, and one which moreover provides a rough conspectus of the major art movements of the past hundred years, or at any rate from 1850 to 1935: from the Romanticism of Delacroix and Corot’s loving treatment of nature to Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, the Nabis, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism and Abstraction.
John Rothenstein
