As Time Goes By (Orange)

As Time Goes By (Orange)

96 x 240 1/8", 244 x 610cm

Sugar-lift aquatint from five copper plates (each made up of three sheets) printed in colours, with carborundum from five plastic plates printed in blue-grey. Hand colouring in Cadmium Yellow Light and Pyrrole Orange/Diarylide Yellow acrylic mix.

Notes: The title refers to the song As Time Goes By, performed by Dooley Wilson in the 1942 film Casablanca.
“I’ve always loved the film Casablanca and in particular, that song. In 2008 I thought I was dying. That song kept going through my mind.” – Howard Hodgkin, 2011.

Unique proof.

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