Lot 226
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HOWARD HODGKIN | Indian Views

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sir 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 77.4cm.; 22 ⅞ by 30 ½in.
  • Executed in 1971, the present works are Artist's proofs (aside from the edition of 75).
printed by Kelpra Studio, published by Leslie Waddington Prints, London, on J Green paper

Literature

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

Condition

The full sheets, in good condition, some with very minor scuff marks in the margins and a few further handling marks verso, each framed.
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Catalogue Note

'[The Indian Views series is] based on the little windows in old-fashioned Indian railway carriages, through which you get the almost keyhole views - concentrated fragments.' (Penelope Marcus, Howard Hodgkin Prints exhibition, Modern Art Oxford, 1976)

Initially conceived as a series that should be hung along a wall in a single line, Indian Views was inspired by the sights that 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.