1997

Awarded Shakespeare Prize by Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg. Predecessors include Graham Greene, Julian Barnes, Dame Janet Baker, David Hockney and Philip Larkin. Dr Raimund Stecker gives the Laudatio.

Shows 12 paintings at Galerie Lawrence Rubin, Zurich, Switzerland, including Haven’t We Met? Of Course We Have, In Coconut Grove, Stormy Weather and Alpine Snow. Catalogue includes an essay by Georg Imdahl.

Interviewed by William Feaver for ‘Mind’s Eye’, Hodgkin talks about Mondrian, Sickert, Liotard, Matisse and Degas.

Designs backcloths for Mark Morris Dance Group’s ‘Rhymes with Silver’.