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This is one of Howard Hodgkin’s largest paintings, measuring 164 x 179.5 cm, but you wouldn’t necessarily guess in reproduction. The blocks of colour, the heavy dark stripe and the characteristic ‘frame’ of blue, seem to be constituted of single brush strokes. The effect of the larger paintings, as the critic Andrew Graham-Dixon has noted, is […]

Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003) was an acclaimed artist both in India and internationally. Active from the 1960s, he was part of a vibrant new wave of narrative painting and figuration by artists in his home country including Gulam Sheikh and Sudhir Patwardhan that became known as the Baroda School. After early experiments with pop art, Khakhar, who was […]

GRIST TO THE MILL Collecting ran in Howard Hodgkin’s family: he was named after an ancestor, Luke Howard, who was the first man to identify and name cloud forms (Essay on the Modification of Clouds, 1803). Howard’s great-grandparents, John Eliot Hodgkin, and his wife Edith filled their house with English ceramic tiles, and published Examples […]

There is not much to show, 30 years later, by the way of memorial to the impulse of sympathy and affection through which so many English children were invited to the U.S. After June 1940. For many of them, the trip meant primarily a change of schooling and an uncomfortable boat-ride; but here and there […]

Originally printed in Howard Hodgkin (New York: Gagosian, 2013). A catalogue made for Hodgkin’s exhibition which opened at their gallery in Rome in the same year.

Exhibition: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2012

A review of the show of Hodgkin’s paintings 2001-2010 at the San Diego Museum of Art, from the San Diego Reader.  The writer, W.S. Di Piero, is a Professor of English at Stanford University and a published poet.

At 78, Howard Hodgkin has slowed a bit, requiring a wheelchair lately to move about, but he remains quick as ever to speak his mind and, judging by the San Diego Museum of Art’s exhibition of his recent work, compelled as ever to paint the wealth of memories and sensations that occupy it.

A note on print-making with the 107 Workshop. Written for Christie’s, South Kensington, where 40 of Jack Shirreff’s printer’s proofs went on sale on 14 September 2010.

An interview by Stefan Kuiper, printed in Vrij Nederland, 28 August 2010, translated by Beth O’Brien

Exhibition: Gagosian Gallery, 2009

Exhibition: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2008