EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition of Paintings &, Water Colours by Clifford Hall
Clifford Hall's fourth solo exhibition was held at the Beaux Arst Gallery, Bruton Place, Bruton Street, Bond Street, London W.1. in 1935, October 28th - November 9th.
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1. Hotel Minerva
2. Circus Horses
3. Quai du Porte, Marseilles
4. Afternoon Conversation
5. Montmartre
6. Room in Oakley Street
7. Place du Tertre
8. The Wardrobe
9. Bertram Mills' Baby Elephants
10. Rue Moïse, Marseille
11. Circus Rider
12. The Repinskis
13. Siesta
14. Girl Plaiting her Hair
15. The Chat Noir
16. Old Montmartre
17. The Bedroom
18. The Clown
19. Southsea Pier
20. Afternoon at the Café
21. Circus Subject
21a Louis
Water Colours
22. Blonde Girl
23. Watching Bombayo
24. Jubilee Procession passing through Fulham
25. Preparing for the Circus, Olympia
26. Rehearsal
27. Spanish Trot
28. Gaieté Montparnesse
29. The Tailors Shop, Marseilles
30. Rue Château Joly
31. Demonstration in Trafalgar Square
32. The Bandsman, Hyde Park
33. Black Dyke Mills Band
34. The Soloist
35. Military Band
36. In the Mirror
37. Dressing
38. Billy
39. Slum Street, Marseilles
40. Meeting in Hyde Park
Picture Details:
The exhibition consisted of 22 oil paintings and 19 water colours:
sizes were not included in the catalogue; prices were.
Oil Paintings Guineas
FOREWORD
CLIFFORD HALL was trained at the Academy Schools, and afterwards in Paris. He is a follower of Sickert more than of any other master, and that influence, intelligently absorbed, is the foundation of his art.
His subjects are taken from everyday life - street scenes, circuses, parades, markets, café interiors, ladies at their toilet - but the human and dramatic element is subordinate to his intense preoccupation with the pictorial aspect of his theme.
An interesting feature of this exhibition is a series of circus subjects. Mr. Hall was tenting with Bertram Mills' Circus in the provinces for three weeks, and during this time made a great number of studies, which he developed later.
He has already held two one-man shows in London; this, his third* and most important exhibition, should firmly establish his reputation.
Author unkown: possibly by Helen or Frederick Lessore, the gallery owners.
* Actually his fourth in London, but the first show appears to have been discounted as the St Martin's Gallery in Charring Cross was not considered to be a West End gallery. GRH