Attributed to Roger Hitlon no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 29"HX37"W framed, good condition, Biography: Roger Hildesheim and his parents changed the name to Hilton in 1916, when anti-German feeling was prevalent. He is best known for his abstract works in oils of the 1950's, many suggesting landscape, although after 1961, the female figure often appears.Roger Hilton CBE (1911 - 1975) was a pioneer of abstract* art in post-war Britain. He was born in 1911 in the Middlesex section of London with the name Roger Hildesheim, but the family surname was changed in 1916 because of anti-German sentiment from the War. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art*, London under Henry Tonks from 1929 to 1931, and then went to Paris, where he developed links with painters on the Continent and studied at the Academie Ransom with painter Roger Bassiere.In World War II he served in the Army, part of the time as a Commando, and was a prisoner until the end of the war after the Dieppe raid of 1942.