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CLIFFORD
HALL 1904 - 1973
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Seated Nude
Chalk Drawing 48 x 36 cm |
Clifford Hall was a painter in oil and
watercolour, and a draftsman and etcher. Born
in London, Hall early in the 1920’s began to study at Richmond Art School,
then Putney Art School. At the
Royal Academy Schools, in 1926-7, he was especially influenced by Walter
Sickert, and much of Hall’s work bears the stamp of Sickert’s palette and
subject-matter: landscapes, genre scenes and London low life. In the
late-1920’s he lived in Paris, studying with André Lhote.
He had a one-man show at the Beaux Arts Gallery in the mid-1930’s, and
then served with a stretcher party during much of World War II.
In 1946 he had the first of a number of one-man exhibitions at Roland,
Browse and Delbanco, and his monograph on Constantin Guys was published.
Making a living in bohemian Chelsea was often a struggle for Hall, who
recorded his experiences in an unpublished journal covering 50 years from the
1920’s. In the late 1960’s he
began a series of pictures: women wrapped in towels, mysterious with unseen
faces. His work is in many public
collections in Britain, including the Imperial War Museum, Victoria and Albert
Museum, and Arts Council, and abroad. After
his death there was a memorial exhibition at Belgrave Gallery in 1977, and then
a studio sale at Christie’s, London, 1982.
Hall latterly married one of his students at Regent Street Polytechnic
School of Art, Ann Hewson and they lived in London.
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