John Hoyland, Just once, 1983
![John Hoyland - Just once (1983), original impasto acrylic painting on canvas.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e845c8c2943a90c2b48b9d1/87d258c1-20e7-436c-8e5b-5d37341e064b/QFA_BM_006-Hoyland-.jpg)
![John Hoyland - Just once (1983), original impasto acrylic painting on canvas.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e845c8c2943a90c2b48b9d1/fc9e39df-f985-4f0a-8f3d-3f77f2230bce/Hoyland_intalled.jpeg)
Technical Information:
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Size: 86 by 71 cm
Signature: signed, dated and titled on the reverse
Provenance:
Private Collection
Waterhouse & Dodd, London
Private collection, UK
Additional Information:
One of the key proponents of Lyrical Abstraction in the UK, John Hoyland was influenced by both the American and European postwar abstract movements. For Hoyland, non-figurative painting was not about capturing some absolute, each composition conveys a specific event, feeling or emotion. A move toward subjectivity and the portrayal of personal experience in art coincides with the departure of postwar abstract painters from Geometric Abstraction.