EXHIBITIONS
Paintings and Drawings by Clifford Hall
Held at the Leger Gallery, 13 Old Bond Street, London W1, November 16th - December 3rd 1932
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1. Strand-on-the-Green
2. The Novel
3. Montmartre
4. Portrait of my Mother (not for sale)
5. The Cakes
6. Chaville
(not for sale - By kind permission of Miss Dorothy Bretton)
7. Marion
8. "Cigarettes at cut prices"
9. The Dress Stall
10. Le Chat Noir
11. Caledonian Market - Winter
12. The Green Tent
13. The Last of the Family
14. Reflections
15. La rue Emile Zola
(not for sale - By kind permission of H.V. Greenwood, Esq.)
16. Harold Lisle, Esq.
17. The Café Mirror
Watercolours and Drawings
18. Caledonian Market (No.1)
19. Woman dressing (drawing)
20. Nude (drawing)
21. Caledonian Market (No.2)
22. Portrait (Oils)
23. The Italian Marionettes (drawing)
24. S.A. Knight, Esq. (drawing)
25. Sofo Café
26. Caledonian Market (No.3)
27. Caledonian Market (No.4)
28. Caledonian Market (No.5)
29. Caledonian Market (No.6)
30. Caledonian Market (No.7)
31. Caledonian Market (No.8)
32. Caledonian Market (No.9)
33. Caledonian Market (No.10)
34. Caledonian Market (No.11)
35. Caledonian Market (No.12)
36. The Professor
37. Nude (drawing)
38. The Waiter
39. The Workman
40. Circus Elephants
41. The Café Bar
Picture Details:
The exhibition consisted of 18 oil paintings and 18 watercolours:and 4 drawings.
Sizes were not included in the catalogue; prices were.
Oil Paintings Guineas
FOREWORD
by Sir George Clausen, R.A.
Mr. Clifford Hall has asked me to write a little foreword to the Catalogue of his Exhibition, and perhaps my only qualification for this is that I was impressed by his work as a student in the Royal Academy Schools some years ago. He showed a more personal outlook than any of his fellow-students; trying to express his subjects in a forcible way, aiming at simplicity and breadth above other qualities. His point of view is, I think, unchanged from those early days; he is content to take things as they are, not designing a picture, but finding it, realising that it is a matter of perception and choice; that a picture depends on form, colour and arrangement even of the most ordinary scenes. The variety possible in this is well shown in the two series of pictures here - one of the Caledonian Market, and the other of a Café.
It is the merest commonplace to say that painting rests on the perception of beauty in our surroundings: yet for the artist the effort to express this is an endless voyage of discovery. One step leads to another: there is no limit to his aim: and he is fortunate if he is able to pass on to others - not only by what he has to say, but by how he says it - the pleasure he has received. And I hope that Mr. Hall's Exhibition will encourage him to persevere in the way he has chosen.
In The Market
IT IS SUPRISING that more attention has not been paid to the Caledonian Market by artists.
Mr. Clifford Hall is showing more than a dozen pictures of this well-known market in the exhibition of his pictures now in progress at the Leger Gallery; he has many amusing anecdotes to relate of his experiences during the 18 months when he visited the market every Tuesday and Friday.
Pencil Sketches.
MR. CLIFFORD HALL, told a "Star" woman that he usually had to make rough pencil sketches and a few notes as to colour very quickly, as so often one of the most prominent still-life models be sold and the whole vista of the picture be altered. He is on the best of terms with the stall-holders, and has often been allowed to take his easel and work at the back of a stall.
Rivals.
THERE WAS ONE occasion when he was painting a man demonstrating a new hair-slide on a flaxen wax model, but the onlookers became so interested as he portrayed the scene that very soon the crowd had moved to the wrong side of the stall.
The artist's pictures of a café in Soho frequented by down-and-outs were all done from life. The promise of a cup of coffee and a ham roll was usually quite sufficient to induce a "model" to sit in the part of the café required for a particular picture.
The following short article about Clifford Hall and his exhibition at the Leger Gallery appeared in The Star* on November 30th, 1932:
Notes:
At this present time, it is not possible to definitively identify many of the works in the exhibition from the catalogue listing, especially because no sizes are given.
The apparent inclusion of an oil painting – i.e. “No.22 Portrait” – under Watercolours and Drawings is very odd. Perhaps it was a late addition, or possibly it is an oil on paper work rather than oil on canvas or board,
It is probable that No. 25 “Sofo Café” is a misprint which should read Soho Café.