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Pery, Jenny.
Painter Pilgrim:
Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London;
Date of Publication: 2008
Stock Code: 15054
First edition. Ssquare quarto, pp., 160. Richly illustrated throughout. Publisher’s steel grey cloth with blind embossed titles to the upper boards, azure titles to spine and matching azure end-papers. In an illustrated dust-jacket. A near fine copy. Colorful, bright, and eerily still, Tristram Hillier’s (b. 1905) paintings present a world of deserted seashores strewn with boats and debris, empty streets in far-off places, and lonely country lanes where it is forever winter. Jenny Pery examines Hillier’s career from the early years, when he was associated with Surrealism and the international avant-garde, to the asceticism that marked his later life. £85.00