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Roger Hilton CBE

Figure with Dog
1973
Gouache
10¾ x 15 ins (27.4 x 38.1 cms)

signed with initials and dated '73

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Provenance:

Private collection 2000 to 2010

Using inexpensive poster paints and children's brushes, which required exceptional inventiveness of handling, Hilton's ill health in the 1970's made him return to the subjects that had characterised his early work.

This return to a naïve painting language in which memory, observation and the simple joy of making marks described a complex variety of impulses and emotions, revived Hilton's imagination and he developed new vigour for the art of making 'pictures'. He retrieved a childlike freshness of vision, but one nevertheless marked by a lifetime's experience and wisdom.

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