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12 February – 25 May 2015 Works from Howard Hodgkin’s esteemed collection of Indian paintings are to be displayed at the Barbican Art Gallery. “Magnificent Obsessions : The Artist as Collector” is the first major exhibition in the UK to present the fascinating personal collections of post-war and contemporary artists, including Arman, Peter Blake, Hanne […]

A new film giving a survey of Howard Hodgkin’s 2014 exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, Paris – his first solo exhibition in the city – is available to view online. It includes an interview with the artist and is set to music from Bach’s ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’.

I have ways of making yellow melancholy, says Howard Hodgkin. And he has. Hodgkin has been manipulating colour for 60 years and he can make it say exactly what he wants it to. Hodgkin is now 82 and physically frail but not when he has a brush in his hand. Then he uses paint like […]

Bonham’s, Prints Sale, 29 November 1pm 101 New Bond StreetLondon W1S 1SR+44 (0) 20 7447 [email protected] Click on each title below to view its auction details on the Bonham website: Lot 198 One Down, estimate £1,000-1,500 Lot 199 Put Out More Flags, estimate £3,000-5,000 (above) Lot 200 Green Room, estimate £1,000-1,500 Lot 201 Black Monsoon, […]

Christie’s is offering House by Howard Hodgkin in their forth-coming Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London in October 2014

‘Degas, Degas, Degas, Howard Hodgkin has repeated over recent years when I have asked him about influence. His dusty orange After Degas (1993) is the cover image for his catalogue raisonn̩, and early on it was easy to trace a line from, say, his great bedroom Interior with Figures (1977-84), with its undefined human forms, […]

Howard Hodgkin’s ‘Fire in Venice’, 1986-89, is being auctioned from the Collection of Rudolf and Leonore Blum on 25th June at Christie’s, London.

Listen to Howard Hodgkin speaking about the legendary modern Indian painter Jamini Roy. Live on BBC Radio 4 at 11.30am on 06/03/14 and available to play online for 7 days thereafter.

Hodgkin’s comments on Matisse for a Time Out article celebrating the opening of the new cut-outs exhibition at Tate Modern: Links: Complete Time Out articleThe Matisse: Cut-Outs exhibition on Tate’s website “Being 81 I can remember when Matisse’s cut-outs first came on the scene. They were very hard for some people to take: they thought […]

Howard Hodgkin has been the first artist to be given the Swarovski Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon award. It aims to honour the lifetime achievement of one of our greatest artists. 

 Hodgkin was chosen by a panel of art experts chaired by Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Gallery; Stephen Deuchar, Director, The Art Fund; Ann Gallagher, […]

Alan Cristea Gallery is pleased to present Green Thoughts, an exhibition of new work by Howard Hodgkin, one of Britain’s most celebrated artists.

REVIEW FROM THE GUARDIAN GUIDE 29TH NOVEMBER 2014 Howard Hodgkin London Howard Hodgkin said he’d forgotten all about these gouaches (work pictured) until the Wiltshire printing workshop where he made them in the early 1990s returned them to him recently. Yet there’s every reason to pay attention to these bold, layered works that channel the […]