Lot 321
  • 321

Howard Hodgkin

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Howard Hodgkin
  • Indian Tree
  • signed and dated HH 91 in pencil (lower centre); inscribed and numbered AP 10/15 (lower centre)
  • etching with carborundum printed in colours, with hand-colouring by Jack Shirreff
  • sheet: 92 by 121.3cm., 36 1/4 by 47 5/8 in.
  • Executed between 1990 and 1991, the present work is an Artist's proof (aside from the edition of 55).
printed by 107 Workshop, Wiltshire, published by Waddington Graphics, London, on Velin Arches paper

Literature

Liesbeth Heenk, Howard Hodgkin Prints, London, 2003, no. 85

Condition

The full sheet printed to the edges, in good condition, framed. (A few minute printing imperfections).
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Catalogue Note

Forty proofs of Indian Tree were destroyed by the artist when the colour of the green egg tempera turned dirty due to a reaction with the printed orange below.