La Route des Alpes (1937)

Tristram 'Birdie' Paul Hillier

tempera on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Tempera, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed: ‘Hillier’ bottom left.

Dimensions:

59.7 x 80.6 (support) cm

Accession Number:

N05447

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1944

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist through Arthur Tooth & Sons, London by John Rothenstein (1901-1992) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1943; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1944

Relationship:

John Knewstub Maurice Rothenstein Arthur Tooth & Sons, London Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Subject:

Landscape

La Route des Alpes (1937) was painted after a brief stay near Vence in the South, whilst Hillier and his second wife, Leda Millicent Hardcastle, were staying in France, which they did until 1940. He described in his autobiography Leda and the Goose (1954): "Here I started to paint landscape again, not in my earlier manner en plein air, but attempting to construct my pictures from rough drawings which I would elaborate in the studio, in the style of the Flemish and Italian masters whose work I had recently had so much opportunity of studying. This was the beginning of my ultimate phase in painting, and became the manner in which I have worked ever since.'

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