JEFF HOARE (1923-2019)
Untitled abstract
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
68 x 92 cm (26 3/4 x 36 1/4 in)

PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist's estate by the present owner

Hoare had first grown to appreciate the power of the sea in the navy during the Second World War. He studied painting under Ceri Richards and Robert Medley, and attended the Royal College of Art with Julian Trevelyan. But it was the time he spent in the USA in the late 1960s that proved truly transformative. While teaching at the universities of Illinois and Arizona he came to appreciate the freedom and boldness that characterised American Post-War art. The experience liberated his approach to colour and his use of much larger canvases on which to fuse his instinct for the colour spectrum with his love of Nature.
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