December – Clifford Hall the Painter V2

including letters written to his wife Marion and some other correspondence

Journal Entries

December (?) 1942

I was never an intellectual painter Things seem to me interesting or very lovely. I try to make my pictures as things seem to me.

Van Gogh was a realist – a super realist.

December 29, 1942

Hanna* sat for me today. Worked for nearly five hours and then wiped off all I had done. Just one of those days when things won’t come right.

* Hanna is Hanna Weil, the artist who was to become the ‘Great Love’ of Clifford’s life. Despite this shaky start, he went on to paint numerous portraits of her. Editor

**‘Portrait of Hanna Weil’ by Clifford Hall. One of his earliest paintings of her.**

**‘Myself in a Bad Mood’, 1942, by Clifford Hall. Now in The Ruth Borchard Collection.**

Part 25 ~ January – April 1943

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Some Paintings by Clifford Hall

Clowns Waiting,1961, by Clifford Hall

Emie Lying on the Bed by Clifford Hall

The Girl with a Cat,1969, by Clifford Hall.

Caledonian Market,1933, by Clifford Hall

Resting Nude by Clifford Hall.

Place du Tertre, Paris,1934, by Clifford Hall.

Shrouded Figure, 1970, by Clifford Hall.

Street Scene in Antwerp,1967, by Clifford Hall

The ‘Chat Noir’,1932, by Clifford Hall

Myself in a Bad Mood,1942, by Clifford Hall

Bather Facing Away by Clifford Hall

Seated Girl in an Orange Dress,1926, by Clifford Hall

A Street in Malakoff,1928, by Clifford Hall.

Evening: Street Scene in Antwerp by Clifford Hall.

Portrait of a Caribbean Lady,1958, by Clifford Hall

Fascist March, 1934, by Clifford Hall,

The Thames at Chelsea,1939, by Clifford Hall.

Moonlight Blackout,1939, by Clifford Hall

Snow in Chelsea, c.1945, by Clifford Hall

Portrait of Hanna Weil,1951, by Clifford Hall

Restoration,1959, by Clifford Hall

Pelham Crescent, c.1940s, by Clifford Hall

Makarska Yugoslavia, 1954, by Clifford Hall

The Slipper by Clifford Hall

Outside the Café, 1934, by Clifford Hall.

Llanmadoc, 1968, by Clifford Hall

Dancer Resting,1959, by Clifford Hall

Breastfeeding, 1957, by Clifford Hall

Blonde Girl Beside the Sea by Clifford Hall

Miss Curran, Nude, 1971, by Clifford Hall

The Dressmaker, c.1950s, by Clifford Hall

The Bay, 1972, by Clifford Hall

Street Women, Antwerp, by Clifford Hall

Hanna Resting on the Bed, by Clifford Hall

He Will Escape by Clifford Hall

Jack Neave at the Chat Noir Cafe by Clifford Hall

Street Scene in Antwerp by Clifford Hall

Portrait of a Clown, 1973, by Clifford Hall

Bather Combing Her Hair by Clifford Hall.

Farm Building at Bembridge by Clifford Hall.

Le Pont Neuf Paris by Clifford Hall

Girl with Shingled Hair by Clifford Hall

Elizabeth by Clifford Hall

Early self-portrait by Clifford Hall

My Bedroom, Antwerp, by Clifford Hall

Circus Horses, 1935, by Clifford Hall

Girl on a Beach by Clifford Hall

Rue des Abbesses by Clifford Hall

The Penitents, 1952, by Clifford Hall

The Stove, 1969, by Clifford Hall.

The Thread, 1973, by Clifford Hall

Eve de Negri, 1950, by Clifford Hall

Reginald Reynolds, 1943, by Clifford Hall

Hanna at the Dressing Table, by Clifford Hall

Bather in a Hut by Clifford Hall.

Ma Chambre by Clifford Hall

By the Shore, by Clifford Hall.

Bill Thomson, clown, by Clifford Hall

Paris, July 1971, by Clifford Hall

Trubka and his Tigers, 1937, by Clifford Hall

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CLIFFORD HALL’S JOURNAL part 24 ~ December 1942