Howard Hodgkin

Put Out More Flags

1992

Etching and aquatint with carborundum and hand-colouring in tempera on wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100. Printed by Jack Shirreff at 107 Work...

Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75. (Galfetti 289).

Put Out More Flags by Howard Hodgkin, 1992 Additional information: Medium: etching with aquatint, printed to the edges 42 x 52.5 cm 16 1/2 x 20 5/8 in signed with initials, dated and inscribed 'For Dave' 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...

Lithograph from four aluminium plates using tusche and washes, printed in transparent red, orange and a red to orange blend, with hand colouring in ivory black watercolour and blue and green gouache. On two sheets of buff BFK Rives mould-made paper (300 gsm) Hand-signed by artist, Signed with initials and dated 1980 in pencil, in the lower left on the left-hand sheet. Numbered in pencil in the lower right, verso Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd. Exhibition History: 'Howard Hodgkin: Views. An Exhibition of Early Prints', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 02 March - 02 April 2013; 'Howard Hodgkin Recollections’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 21 April - 14 May 2022 Literature: Pat Gilmour, 'Howard Hodgkin', The Print Collector's Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 1, March-April 1981, p. 5 (ill. front cover); Deborah Phillips, 'New Editions: Howard Hodgkin', ARTnews, vol. 80, no. 7, September 1981, p. 161; 'Prints by Six British Painters: Stephen Buckley...