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Howard Hodgkin
Description
- Howard Hodgkin
- Girl in Bed
- signed, titled and dated 1965 on the stretcher
- oil on canvas
- 71 by 92cm.; 28 by 36¼in.
- Executed in 1965.
Provenance
Saatchi Collection, London
Sotheby's, New York, 30th April 1991, lot 18
Exhibited
Lausanne, Château de la Sarraz, 5 Peintres, 5 Pays, Prix International de Peinture, 1965, no.18;
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery Ltd., Howard Hodgkin: Recent Paintings, 1967, no.1, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue;
Oxford, MOMA, Howard Hodgkin, Forty-Five paintings 1949-1975, 1976, no.18, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p.40, with tour to Serpentine Gallery, London; Turnpike Gallery, Leigh; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and Graves Art Gallery Sheffield.
Literature
Anon., 'Howard Hodgkin' in Ark: The Journal of the Royal College of Art, Summer 1965, p.20, illustrated in colour;
Anon., 'On Exhibition' in Studio International, March 1967, p.157, no.12, illustrated in colour;
Nigel Gosling, 'Heroic Pessimism on a Bicycle' in Observer, March 1967, p.25;
Harold Osborne, 'Howard Hodgkin' in Art Review, 14th May 1976, p.239;
Alistair Hicks, New British Art in the Saatchi Collection, London 1989, p. 49, no. 30, illustrated in colour;
Michael Auping, John Elderfield and Susan Sontag, Howard Hodgkin Paintings, Catalogue Raisonné, London 1995, p. 148, no. 54, illustrated.
Condition
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