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Lot 259
JOHN HOYLAND, R.A. (1934-2011)
Love and Grief
Closed22 March 2023
Price Realised
GBP 21,420
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Specialist note
Mel Gooding discusses this work in John Hoyland: The Last Paintings:
'The second of the paintings that honours Patrick Caulfield bears no record of his name. But its title, Love and Grief, and its virtual simultaneity of creation with Souvenir (for Patrick C), is indication enough that Hoyland regarded it as essentially elegiac, and felt on its completion that its imagery and mood was a fitting response of one artist to another. The luminous blue with its smoke-dark concentration at the centre of a complex indigo field, and its scatter of vivid acrylic splatters to the left - red, orange, green, yellow, blue - like a falling constellation of unformed celestial fragments, suggest chromatic potentiality in opposition to the dissolving, the evanescent: it is a beautiful and affecting visual metaphor for that which is going (from presence into absence, now fading even from memory, becoming vague) and that which is, as we look, materialising into vibrant actuality, as it might be, a token of the lucid presence of Caulfield's art' (M. Gooding, 'The Late 'Elegies' and the Mysteries', in S. Cornish (ed.), op. cit.).
The Hoyland Estate are currently preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work and would like to hear from owners of any work by the artist so that these can be included in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to The Hoyland Estate, c/o Christie's, Modern British Art Department, 8 King Street, London, SW1Y 6QT.
'The second of the paintings that honours Patrick Caulfield bears no record of his name. But its title, Love and Grief, and its virtual simultaneity of creation with Souvenir (for Patrick C), is indication enough that Hoyland regarded it as essentially elegiac, and felt on its completion that its imagery and mood was a fitting response of one artist to another. The luminous blue with its smoke-dark concentration at the centre of a complex indigo field, and its scatter of vivid acrylic splatters to the left - red, orange, green, yellow, blue - like a falling constellation of unformed celestial fragments, suggest chromatic potentiality in opposition to the dissolving, the evanescent: it is a beautiful and affecting visual metaphor for that which is going (from presence into absence, now fading even from memory, becoming vague) and that which is, as we look, materialising into vibrant actuality, as it might be, a token of the lucid presence of Caulfield's art' (M. Gooding, 'The Late 'Elegies' and the Mysteries', in S. Cornish (ed.), op. cit.).
The Hoyland Estate are currently preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work and would like to hear from owners of any work by the artist so that these can be included in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to The Hoyland Estate, c/o Christie's, Modern British Art Department, 8 King Street, London, SW1Y 6QT.