2002

In celebration of H’s 70th birthday the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art shows 20 Large Paintings 1984—2002. They include Lovers, Dinner in Palazzo Albrizzi, Sad Flowers, Rain and Snapshot. To unify the spaces in the Dean Gallery, two rectangular rooms linked by a bridge, Hodgkin has the walls painted ultramarine. Catalogue includes essays by Robert Rosenblum and Richard Kendall.

For the ‘Galleries Show’ at the Royal Academy, London Gagosian takes the large rotunda, where Hodgkin shows eight small paintings, among them, Mud, Dirty Weather and Low Tide against walls of ultramarine.

Designs backcloth for Mark Morris Dance Group’s ‘Kolam’.

The Aldeburgh Festival stages a new production of Savitri, reuses Hodgkin’s backcloth and exhibits his stage designs at the Peter Pears Gallery in a setting devised by Patrick Kinmonth. The catalogue includes an essay by John-Paul Stonard.