drawing
- Museum number
- 2003,0601.24
- Description
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Gestural drawing of three-quarter length female nude in gouache outlined in charcoal, arms raised holding black hair across face, spray of blue dots l, curved brown and red shape l, bright blue pastel at legs. 1974
Gouache, pastel and charcoal
- Production date
- 1974
- Dimensions
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Height: 419 millimetres
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Width: 325 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This image of Hilton's wife Rose was used on the cover of Night Letters, his notes written when confined to bed through alcoholism, and published posthumously.
According to an anonymous pupil of Roger Hilton's at Byam Shaw School of Art, Hilton was a pioneer of the method of drawing the nude whereby the figure was continually moving, and this figure was probably drawn in that manner.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1980 Feb and tour, Graves Art Gallery Sheffield, Roger Hilton, no. 38
1982, Sakastoon Gallery, Roger Hilton Works on Paper, no. L81-50-23
1997, St. Ives, Tate, 'Roger Hilton, An Instrument of Truth', no. 221
2003-2004 Dec-April, BM, Three Great Gifts: The David Brown Bequest
2004-2005 Oct-Jan, Southampton City Art Gallery, Boom Boom Cluster
2006-2007 Oct-Jan, St. Ives, Tate, 'Roger Hilton'
2009-2010 Nov-Jan, Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Roger Hilton
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2003,0601.24
