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Lot Essay
Hilton's work changed considerably in 1953. While in Amsterdam with the Dutch artist Constant, whom he had met the year before, Hilton encountered Mondrian's paintings first-hand. His immediate response to Mondrian and Constant was a simplification of his style as evident in the present work.
Hilton commented that 'the painter today is like the ancient alchemists: he is concerned not so much with visible reality as with reality tout court. His pictures are not a picture of the world but an attempt to change it' (see exhibition catalogue, Roger Hilton, London, Serpentine Gallery, 1974, p. 4).
Hilton commented that 'the painter today is like the ancient alchemists: he is concerned not so much with visible reality as with reality tout court. His pictures are not a picture of the world but an attempt to change it' (see exhibition catalogue, Roger Hilton, London, Serpentine Gallery, 1974, p. 4).