Lot 7
  • 7

HOWARD HODGKIN | Blue Listening Ear (Heenk 73)

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sir Howard Hodgkin
  • Blue Listening Ear (Heenk 73)
  • sheet: 48 by 65cm.; 18 7/8 by 25 1/2 in.
Etching with aquatint and carborundum printed in colours, with hand-colouring by Jack Shirreff, 1986, signed with initials in pencil, dated, numbered 69/100 (total edition includes ten Artist's proofs), printed by 107 workshop, Wiltshire, published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London, on TH Saunders NOT paper

Condition

The full sheet printed to the edges (a deckle edge at each side), in good condition, a small tear in the deckle at left sheet edge (measuring approx. 4mm), a minute accretion towards the lower right sheet edge (possibly associated with printing), framed.
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