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Roger Hilton:
Self portrait, mid 1930's
Framed (ref: 7971)

Pencil

Tags: Roger Hilton pencil men portraits 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

Provenance: Dan Klein Ltd

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.311.

Hilton was a pioneer of Abstraction in post Second-World war Britain. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. This portrait was probably made during Hilton's stay in Paris during the 1930s, a flamboyant time during which artists such as Picasso, Modigliani, Ernst, Magritte, Chagall and many other pioneers dominated the Parisian Art scene. By 1940, Hilton was serving in the Army and became a prisoner of war after  the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. It wasn't until the 1950s that Hilton threw himself fully into the British Abstraction scene, finally moving to Cornwall  and becoming a prominent member of the St. Ives School, 

The self portrait, which is clearly from a sketch book, can be compared to a slightly later version in collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw07490/Roger-Hilton

We are grateful for Adrian Lewis and Matthew Hilton for assistance.