A Rainbow, 2003 - 2004
A Small Thing Enlarged, 15-colour screen print, 2021, supporting The Art Fund. The print is made from the small gouache Howard painted for the BBC’s Billboard Project in 1992. A Small Thing Enlarged, 15-colour screen print, 2021, is available through The Art Fund.
A Small Thing Enlarged, 15-colour screen print, 2021, supporting The Art Fund. The print is made from the small gouache Howard painted for the BBC’s Billboard Project in 1992.
A Small Thing Enlarged, 1992
"The sublimity of color in Hodgkin's pictures can be thought of as, first of all, expressive of gratitude for the world that resists and survives the ego and its discontents." Susan Sontag1995
"The sublimity of color in Hodgkin's pictures can be thought of as, first of all, expressive of gratitude for the world that resists and survives the ego and its discontents."
Goodbye to the Bay of Naples (detail), 1980 - 1982
"I am a representational painter, but not a painter of appearances. I paint representational pictures of emotional situations." Howard Hodgkin
"I am a representational painter, but not a painter of appearances. I paint representational pictures of emotional situations."
Night Thoughts (detail), 2014 - 2015
After Degas (detail), 1993
"(India) I couldn’t work without it." Howard Hodgkin2014
"(India) I couldn’t work without it."
In the Studio of Jamini Roy (detail), 1976 - 1979
"The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling." Howard Hodgkin
"The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling."
Lovers (detail,) 1984 - 1992
Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (1932 – 2017) was a British painter and printmaker.
Judy Marle’s 1982 film, made for the Arts Council, includes scenes in India and conversations with David Sylvester, Foy Nissen, Bhupen Khakhar, Haridas Swali and Julia Hodgkin.
Shopping
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Prints: Cristea Roberts Gallery
Posters and Prints: King and McGaw
Catalogues: Gagosian Shop
Rugs, Plates, Cushions: The Hepworth Wakefield Shop
Student visits to the Howard Hodgkin studio
In Focus
In 1986, Howard Hodgkin spoke to John Guy about his favourite items in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
‘ During our tour, one was aware of the painter’s eye at work, constantly seeking objects which offered satisfying solutions to the most formal problems of design through the value assigned to colour, texture and materials to create the correct degree of surface tension. Howard Hodgkin’s ten objects draw on the full cultural eclecticism and diversity of media which characterises the V&A. The search for shared design values across cultures and materials is perhaps the element which most unites these objects in a common vision, together with a horror vacui, that fear of empty spaces which underlies the impulse to adorn.
Howard Hodgkin began with the 1937 evening jacket designed by Charles James (Fig. 1), “One of the most original fashion designers of the twentieth century”. “It is like a piece of architecture applied to the body and yet produces an effect of total glamour, achieved with great economy (really just a piece of old eiderdown). The jacket has a presence and autonomy which renders the wearer almost incidental, simply a prop on which to display the strong arabesque forms which stand away from the body with a life of their own”. ‘
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“A lot of people… are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid” Howard Hodgkin
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The Indian Collection
Howard Hodgkin’s collection of Indian paintings and drawings has been recognised as one of the finest of its kind. It comprises over 115 works, including many from the Mughal period (c. 1550–1850). With no interest in ac- ademic issues of topography, period or style, it reflects an artist’s passion for art.
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