Artist: Tristram Hillier  

Title: 'Landscape with pond and trees' (pencil signed print - framed)

Description: Tristram Hillier, RA (1905-1983) was a painter of landscapes and still life and some religious subjects, executed with a great deal of precision and with a surreal quality. Born in Peking he studied art at The Slade School in London 1926, and later in Paris under André Lhote and at the Atelier Colarossi.  During the early 1930s he was part of the group Unit One ('The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture'), founded by Paul Nash, his friend Edward Wadsworth being another member, and he held his first one man show at The Lefevre Gallery in 1931. In the period prior to 1940 he travelled extensively in Spain, France, Portugal and the Balkans sketching as he went. After service in World War II he settled in Somerset, often painting the rural landscape. Holloer achieved a great deal of recognition and exhibited widely including at the Royal Academy where he was elected a full member in 1967. His autobiography Leda and the Goose was published in 1954. A major retrospective show was held in the year of his death.

The present work is a pencil signed reproduction print, after an original painting by Hillier of what we think is a Somerset landscape, and measures 18 x 24 inches image size and 28.5 x 34.8 inches in its original frame.  The painting was executed in 1949 and this print of it was published by the well known art dealers Frost & Reed in 1956.  The print has the embossed stamp of The Fine Art Trade Guild and would have been released in limited numbers.  This example was sold through Aldridge Brothers of Worthing, a local firm of art dealers subsequently acquired by Frost & Reed. It is in good condition and is an opportunity to own a signed Hillier at a modest cost...

Price: £sold

Size: 18 x 24 inches (image size)

Shipping: £20 to Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Greater London by hand delivery (in view of the size and weight of the item). Please enquire for other destinations.

Ref #: 0739