Henry Cliffe's Composition 1956 was painted in the same year as his first solo exhibition at the Redfern Gallery, London. This abstract patchwork of colour is bound up in an...
Henry Cliffe's Composition 1956 was painted in the same year as his first solo exhibition at the Redfern Gallery, London. This abstract patchwork of colour is bound up in an optimistic aesthetic. His work as a printmaker comes through in this piece in his graphic use of line and layering of forms. Despite this, there is also a rich, textural and painterly quality.