After Corot

Notes: Hodgkin has described this work as one of this most elaborate uses of framing. The frame here serves as arch, as frame, as spatial device, establishing the foreground of the painting. He has said, further, “I painted After Corot because I wanted to paint a picture in the style of Corot’s Roman period… I found it extremely difficult to paint that little picture” in ‘A Conversation with Howard Hodgkin’, in Howard Hodgkin, London: Anthony d’Offay Gallery, 1993, p. 67.