Produced in the year following his return from New York, where John Hoyland immersed himself in the atmosphere of American Abstract Expressionism and forged close friendships with Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Barnett Newman.

The series compositions — Green, Orange, Pink; Grey/Blue on Pink; Orange, Pink, Green; and Red Block on Pink — convey Hoyland's signature language of bold, sovereign colour into works of arresting restraint: saturated blocks advance and recede against luminous grounds, generating a tension between mass and atmosphere that is at once architectural and emotionally alive. Colour here is the primary vehicle of feeling. As Hoyland himself stated, 'the exploration of colour, mass, shape is a self-exploration constantly varied and changing in nature: a reality made tangible on the painted surface'.

Held in the permanent collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and the Tate, the suite confers the full intensity of Hoyland's artistic vision that unites the transatlantic ambitions of Abstract Expressionism and Modern British art with the chromatic radicalism that defines Hoyland's enduring legacy will find these works of exceptional significance.

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