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WORKS FROM THE STUDIO OF PATRICK HAYMAN (1915-1988)
'Patrick Hayman's world is intensely private. ... Single-mindedly pursuing a personal mythology through numerous small paintings, drawings, constructions and poetry. He has several on the go at once, sometimes painstakingly re-working them over a period of years ... He reads extensively, often returning to the solitary wisdom of Rilke, to Hesse and Jung, and the new frontier writers Whitman and Melville... He works in the humanist tradition, not only are his themes familiar, but the intimate scale and autobiographical nature of his imagery invite our immediate involvement. Richard Demarco, on the occasion of the 1973 Whitechapel show, observed '...a naive quality which could have been born out of his life in New Zealand when he was so far from that part of the world from which he draws his spiritual nourishment.' (A. Kirker, Patrick Hayman and his Links with New Zealand, Art New Zealand, no. 28, Spring 1983).
'Born in London in 1915, Hayman spent his formative years in New Zealand, where he was closely involved with several of the most important young artists of a brilliant group associated with Colin McCahon. He returned to England in 1947, and before long became part of the burgeoning post-war art scene in Cornwall. At first as a resident and thereafter as an annual visitor...'(M. Gooding, Patrick Hayman: Visionary Artist, London, 2005, dustjacket).
'On his return to England in March 1947, Hayman almost immediately went to live at St Ives in Cornwall, where he increased his interest in painting. The primitive flavour of his style was already established, and it was encouraged in this environment which twenty years previously had nurtured the untutored vision of the Cornish fisherman, Alfred Wallis (see lot 112)...
'Much as they loved St Ives, the Haymans (Ba, [his wife] and him) had become confirmed Londoners, and early in 1965, they returned to the house in Barnes in which they had lived since 1960. This beautiful little harbour town at the end of England, its grey rocks, its green turf, hills and trees, its beaches and headlands at the edge of a great sea, its boats and cars, artists and poets and townspeople, had by now long been a vital part of Hayman's creative world, a deeply imagined locus for his own mythopoeia (ibid. p. 36).
Patrick Hayman (1915-1988)
St. Ives; Dreaming Girl; and a linocut entitled, Woman with Flowers
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Patrick Hayman (1915-1988)
St. Ives; Dreaming Girl; and a linocut entitled, Woman with Flowers
signed 'Hayman' (lower left)
pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolour
6¾ x 9¾ in. (17.2 x 24.8 cm.)
Executed in 1952. (3)
St. Ives; Dreaming Girl; and a linocut entitled, Woman with Flowers
signed 'Hayman' (lower left)
pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolour
6¾ x 9¾ in. (17.2 x 24.8 cm.)
Executed in 1952. (3)