Howard Hodgkin

Indian room

1967

Lithograph from four zinc plates using tusche and crayon, printed in orange, two shades of blue, and black. On BFK Rives wove paper (250 gsm) Signed, numbered and dated '66 in pencil...

Screenprint from 20 screens with embossing. On Velin Arches mould-made paper Based on 'Lotus', textile dyes on hand-made Indian paper, 1978 Signed and dated in pencil, lower centre. ...

Lithograph from three zinc plates printed in emerald green, red brown, and grey with hand colouring in yellow watercolour and red gouache. On Velin Arches mould-made paper (300 gsm) ...

Screenprint from 18 screens. On Velin Arches mould-made paper Based on 'Still Life', textile dyes on hand-made Indian paper, 1978 Signed with initials and dated 1980 in pencil, lower...

Howard Hodgkin Still Life, 1980 Colour screenprint on Velin Arches paper, signed with initials, dated and numbered 77/100 in pencil. 79 x 73 cm published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd, Lon...

Howard Hodgkin Alexander Street, 1978 Serigraph in multiple colours on Velin Arches 300 gsm mould-made paper with deckled edges Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge '42/90 Hodgki...

Initialled and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (there were also 25 artist's proofs). Printed by Jack Shirreff at the 107 Workshop, Wiltshire. Commissioned and publi...

Indian View E by Howard Hodgkin, 1971 Additional information: Medium: screenprint in colours on J Green, printed to the edges 22 3/4 x 30 1/2 in 57.7 x 77.5 cm signed, dated and numbered 8/75 in pencil Hodgkin was born in London and grew up in Hammersmith Terrace. During World War II he was evacuated to Long Island, New York, for three years. In the Museum of Modern Art, New York, he saw works by School of Paris artists such as Henri Matisse, Édouard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard, which he could not easily have seen then in London or Paris. Back in England in 1943, Hodgkin ran away from Eton College and Bryanston School, convinced that education would impede his progress as an artist, though he encountered inspiring teachers at both schools. He then attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (1949–50) and Bath Academy of Art, Corsham (1950–54). Hodgkin never belonged to a school or group. While many of his contemporaries were drawn to Pop or the School of London, he remained independent, initially marking his outsider status with a series of portraits of contemporary artists and their families. His first solo exhibition was at Arthur Tooth and Sons in London in 1962. Two years later he first visited India, following his interest in Indian miniatures, which began during his time at Eton. Collecting Indian art would remain a lifelong passion, which he initially supported by dealing in picture frames. In 1984 Hodgkin represented Britain at the Biennale di Venezia. His exhibition Forty Paintings reopened the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 1985, and he won the Turner Prize the same year. In 1995–96 Hodgkin had an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which travelled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; and Hayward Gallery, London. His first full retrospective opened at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2006 and traveled to Tate Britain, London, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. In the autumn of 2016 Hodgkin visited India for what was to be the last time, completing six new paintings before his return to London. These works were shown at England’s Hepworth Wakefield in 2017, in Painting India, a show that focused on the artist’s long-standing relationship with the Indian subcontinent. Starting in the 1950s, Hodgkin maintained a parallel printmaking practice, translating his visual language into works on paper. Exploring the interactions of color and space on a grander scale, he produced theatrical set designs for Ballet Rambert, the Royal Ballet, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. His black stone and white marble mural...