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expression of frustration or exasperation. According to his wife, the argument took place in France in the summer of 1962, before they were married. Hilton has rejected the suggestion that he took conscious inspiration from paintings of dancers and bathers by
126:, and upraised arms. All four limbs are cut off at the edges of the frame. The white body contrasts with bold segments of background colour in yellow and red, blue and black. The work is inscribed on the back "Oi, yoi, yoi/Hilton/Dec 63". 122:. Perhaps Hilton's best-known work, it is a free composition depicting a naked woman. The central figure is abstracted and unpainted canvas, with simple black outlines drawn in charcoal of a featureless face, breasts and 212:(jīng, meaning "capital"), and also resembles a dancing figure with arms raised, or a runner crossing a finishing line. Hilton may have likewise taken inspiration from a Chinese character. 277: 63: 307: 190: 85: 56: 165:, which has as similar central figure but more muted background colours limited to blue, black and yellow. 312: 201: 302: 46: 50: 42: 297: 253: 209: 67: 261: 317: 193:
in Edinburgh in 1981. Both works measure 60 inches (150 cm) by 50 inches (130 cm).
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According to Hilton, the painting was inspired by a drunken argument with his second wife,
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in 1964. It was also exhibited in a retrospective exhibition of Hilton's work at the
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Roger Hilton: Swinging Out Into The Void, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
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in 1974, along with a second version of the same subject,
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The painting was exhibited in the British Pavilion at the
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Tate Gallery
Roger Hilton
pubic triangle
Rose Hilton
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Yiddish
Cézanne
Matisse
Venice Biennale
Serpentine Gallery
Tate Gallery
Waddington Galleries
Tate Britain
Tate St Ives
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Dancing Beijing
2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Guo Chunning

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