John Hoyland, Just once, 1983

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.