News & Announcements

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 […]

April 20 – July 26, 2015 Works from Howard Hodgkin’s esteemed collection of Indian paintings are to be displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From the gallery’s press release: The Deccan plateau of south-central India was home to a succession of highly cultured Muslim kingdoms with a rich artistic heritage. Under their […]

February 21, 2015, to June 21, 2015 A double exhibition showing works from Howard Hodgkin’s private collection of Indian paintings as well as works by the artist himself which relate to his experience of India. Inspired by India: Paintings by Howard Hodgkin British painter, printmaker, and collector Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) has been passionate about […]

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 7447prints@bonhams.com 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, […]