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David's Pool at Night (David Hockney's Pool) black white abstract Howard Hodgkin

1985

$6,500
£5,022.38
€5,806.34
CA$9,184.97
A$10,301.55
CHF 5,394.76
MX$125,173.94
NOK 68,504.48
SEK 64,947.07
DKK 43,341.30

About the Item

Large scale black and white etching depicting an abstracted pool, at David Hockney’s home in Los Angeles. This hand painted Howard Hodgkin work is ideal for display in minimalist, modern and contemporary spaces. Howard Hodgkin’s circle of friends included numerous British artists such as David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield. This work was produced among others after a visit to David Hockney's Los Angeles home. Most Hodgkin works are abstract, but usually contain observational gestures: a room viewed from above becomes a grouping of soft shapes. Here, a palm tree is simplified into a curved chevron blended like charcoal, and the pool, filled with hazy scribbles, is neatly crenelated by saturated squares of pigment. Staccato daubs of ink recall a lawn, augmented by sweeping drybrush that frames the composition in pale grey. Paper 25 x 31 in. / 63.7 x 79 cm Softground etching and aquatint (from one plate) with hand coloring in ink (black) on white Hahnemühle mould made paper. Edition 100; this impression 100/100. Signed by the artist with initials lower left, dated 85, and numbered 100/100 lower center in pencil. David’s Pool at Night evinces the increase in emotional content and intensity in Hodgkin’s work after the late 1970s. His marks are more fluid and lush due to an increased looseness of handling. These later works show a richness and a surface texture previously lacking – mainly due to the application of gouache or watercolor by hand but also to the more tonal techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching with chalk-like lines. A copy of this print is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, and Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester. Catalogue reference: Elizabeth Knowles, Howard Hodgkin: Prints 1977 to 1983, Tate Gallery, London 1985, no. 42, illustrated p. 36
  • Creator:
    Howard Hodgkin (1932, British)
  • Creation Year:
    1985
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 25 in (63.5 cm)Width: 31 in (78.74 cm)
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  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU121125721372

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