2008

Twenty new paintings shown at Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London WC1, include House and Garden, Blushing and Degas’ Russian Dancers, In Egypt, Artist and Model and four large paintings, Home, Home on the Range; Where the Deer and the Antelope Roam; Where Seldom is Heard a Discouraging Word and And the Skies are Not Cloudy All Day. The catalogue prints Seamus Heaney’s speech opening the Dublin show and a new essay by Alan Hollinghurst.

‘Howard Hodgkin & Edgar Degas’ at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, in which An Early Landscape is paired with La femme de Candaules.

Whitechapel Gallery commissions a new print, Sunset (copperplate sugarlift in 5 colours, handpainted in acrylic in 4 colours) as the Whitechapel Gift: all proceeds go to the gallery’s education programmes.