Chez Max

Notes: The title refers to the noted designer and architect Max Gordon. Hodgkin has observed, ‘Chez Max is one of three memorial painting I painted of the late Max Gordon who designed the Saatchi Gallery in Boundary Road and who was an extraordinary character… in some ways I think that Chez Max is the best, partly because by using this circular format and an antique frame, I was able to distance the subject even more from me than I might perhaps have been able to do otherwise, and I think it’s therefore more intense than the other two’, in Art Now: Interviews with Modern Artists, London: Continuum, 2002, p. 43. See also Memories of Max (PA285), In Memory of Max Gordon (PA293) and Small Chez Max (PA315).