Lot 109
  • 109

Howard Hodgkin

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Howard Hodgkin
  • Indian Views
  • each signed and dated Hodgkin 71 in pencil (lower centre or lower right); inscribed AP (lower centre or lower right)
  • the complete set, comprising 12 screenprints in colours
  • each sheet: approx. 58 by 77.6cm., 22 3/4 by 30 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1971, the present works are Artist's proofs (aside from the edition of 75).
with the printer's inkstamp verso, Kelpra Studio, published by Leslie Wadddington Prints, London, on J Green paper

Literature

Liesbeth Heenk, Howard Hodgkin Prints, London, 2003, nos. 11-22

Condition

The full sheets, in good condition, with very slight handling marks towards sheet edges (only visible in a raking light) as is common with this paper, each framed. Imperfections to individual sheets include: H. 11, 12, 16 and 18 with a few minute fox marks on the verso. H. 22 with a minute loss at the upper right sheet edge (measuring approximately 3mm).
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Catalogue Note

Initially conceived as a series that should be hung along a wall in a single line, Indian Views was inspired by the sights which the artist encountered whilst travelling in an old-fashioned Indian railway carriage.

The series also marks the point at which the frame becomes an important formal device for most of the artist's future prints.