john hoyland / untitled (rthko memorial) / 30/132

john hoyland

John Hoyland was a British painter known for his use of vibrant color in producing abstractions which wavered between depth and flatness. Steeped in the aesthetic teachings of Hans Hofmann, Hoyland mined the emotional and formal attributes of color and scale, evinced in his seminal series Power Stations (1964-1982). “Paintings are a seduction, one develops a relationship with these inanimate objects which becomes a bond like a living person, a mirror, a realm of elusive power,” he once mused. “Art plays a game of structural truthfulness, it becomes alive. It contains and understands ecstasy through color as light. The artist must try to make every song sing and push beyond the fixing of appearances.” Born on October 12, 1934 in Sheffield, he went on to study at the Sheffield College of Art and later the Royal Academy in London where he was
remonstrated by a professor for painting abstractions. In 1964, Hoyland travelled to New York where he met Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko, both of whom had a lasting impact on his work. After returning to England, Hoyland’s reputation grew, culminating in the artist’s first solo
exhibition in 1967 at Whitechapel Art Gallery. Over the following decades, his work continued striving to provide a sense of wonder in the viewer. Hoyland died on July 31, 2011 in London, United Kingdom. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Tehran Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery in London, and The
Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.

Untitled, from Rothko Memorial Portfolio
Offset lithograph with screenprint in colours, 1973, on
T.H. Saunders wove paper, from the numbered edition of 75 (there were also 15 artist's proofs), published by the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust, Daugavpils, Latvia, with full margins.

John Hinds frame with white conservation mount, museum glass and a 'white' stained deep timber frame

• numbered (1/75), signed and dated by the artist,

image: 575x770mm
frame: tba

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note: this photograph is of a print owned by me, taken with my camera, in my home. the copyright of this photograph belongs to me.