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“Anthony Hill played a remarkable part in the history of modernism in England after the Second World War. His work, his writing and his engagement with intellectual endeavour in Europe and America changed the way that art developed in London, moving the terms of reference beyond Paris without falling under the spell of New York. I had a deep respect for his achievements.”
—Nicholas Serota

Hill was a principal theorist of the constructionists, a group of established artists who had turned towards abstraction, centred around Victor Pasmore. By the mid-1950s he had rejected painting for relief …