Signed, dated and inscribed 5/75 in pencil.

Printed at Kelpra Studios, London with their inkstamp verso

Sheet 56.7 x 78.3cm

Conservation framing by John Jones

Reference: see Tate Britain, accession number P04328 for another example of this edition.

Howard Hodgkin’s vivid, gestural abstractions pushed the boundaries of painting, often quite literally—the artist became well known for brushstrokes that trailed off the edges of the wooden supports he used instead of traditional canvases. The results blurred the distinction between painting and frame and undermined traditional notions of the picture plane. Hodgkin’s compositions incorporated both geometric fields and more fluid pools of paint. All embraced emotive colour palettes.

Hodgkin studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London and the Bath Academy of Art, and his work has been exhibited in New York, London, Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, and Los Angeles.

In 1984, he represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. Hodgkin’s work is in the collections of the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, and the Phillips Collection, among others. Hodgkin produced paintings, prints, posters, set design, and textiles, and he designed the architectural façade for the British Council’s offices in New Delhi.

Hodgkin was also a great collector of antiques and the decorative arts. Highlights from his collection was sold at Sotheby’s in 2017. An imposing ebony Flanders cabinet from the sale is now in our collection.