Detail of mural design on British Counci HQ, New Delhi (architect Charles Correa).

Mural design for British Council HQ, New Delhi (architect Charles Correa) in context with the street life on Kasturba Gandhi Marg.

Bequest of Richard Brown Baker. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

…lunch? Links of communication had to be kept open. Meanwhile I would sit in one or other of the armchairs looking at a line of stubbornly autonomous pictures demanding completion,…

Gouache on paper. In this posthumous portrait the Maharaja sits on an ivory chair of European design. A Victorian lamp fitting appears against the vivid green ground, itself an imported…

Notes: A silkscreen print made from Hodgkin’s design for a Royal Mail stamp….

…are undimmed. The pictures are vigorous, joyful, saturated in colour. They are painted with great freedom and collectively indicate that the painter has so thoroughly mastered his own, self-invented language…

A scene from Mozart Dances, choreographed by Mark Morris, scenic design by Howard Hodgkin, costumes by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting by James F. Ingalls.

Notes: The title is a chapter heading in Kristina Wilson, Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design in the Great Depression, Yale University Press, 2004.

Howard Hodgkin was responsible for the scenic design in Mark Morris’s new production of ‘Layla and Majnun’ PREMIERE SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 Cal Performances Mark Morris Dance Group – Zellerbach Hall…

A scene from Mozart Dances, choreographed by Mark Morris, scenic design by Howard Hodgkin, costumes by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting by James F. Ingalls.