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Landscape and still life with table, vine-sprayer and rake

Drawing
1936 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Hillier, Tristram Paul (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Still life drawing, graphite, squared for transfer


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleLandscape and still life with table, vine-sprayer and rake
Materials and techniques
Graphite
Graphite
Drawn
Brief description
Tristram Hillier (1905-1983), graphite drawing of landscape and still life with table, vine-sprayer and rake, 1936
Physical description
Still life drawing, graphite, squared for transfer
Dimensions
  • Height: 32cm
  • Width: 38cm
  • Height: 387.35mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1958)
  • Width: 444.5mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1958)
Style
British
Marks and inscriptions
Signed and dated in pencil: Hillier '36
Object history
Historical significance: Tristram Hillier studied at the Slade School of Art in London under Henry Tonks between 1926 and 27. He subsequently went to Paris, studying at the Academie Colarossi, and until 1940 he lived mainly in the South of France. Hillier's work shows the influence of the Surrealists. In his enigmatic compositions incongruous objects are often juxtaposed, and an atmosphere of dreamlike strangeness is evoked. Like his oil and tempera paintings, this pencil drawing is very smoothly and meticulously executed.
Subjects depicted
Still Life
Landscape
Bibliographic references
  • Owens, Susan, The Art of Drawing British Masters and Methods since 1600, V&A Publishing, London, 2013, p. 159, fig. 128
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1958
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.146-1958

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1037811/landscape-and-still-life-with-drawing-hillier-tristram-paul/
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