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Venetian Glass

Creator: Howard Hodgkin
Offered by: DSA Fine Arts

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Venetian Glass
silkscreen

Sir Howard Hodgkin

Edition. rare, pencil signed and numbered 60/72 Screenprint in 6 colours from 6 screens, on Huntsman Velvet paper (180gsm). Printed by G & B Arts Ltd, London, Published by Lincoln Center Editions, New York. Based on Venetian Glass, oil on wood, 1984-86. Also produced as a poster in an edition of 1500 for the Mostly Mozart Festival at the Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York.

Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) was an acclaimed British painter and printmaker.

He was born into a middle-class family in London in 1932. His maternal grandfather, Gordon Hewart, was Lord Chief Justice between 1922 and 1940, and his cousins included the art critic Roger Fry, the artist Eliot Hodgkin, and the conductor John Eliot Gardiner. By the age of five he had already decided to become a painter, a fact he often publicly commented on later in life.

His upbringing was disturbed by the Second World War, and between 1940 and 1943 he lived on Long Island in New York with his mother and older sister, avoiding the Blitz in Britain. This was a formative time for Hodgkin. He visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and took an interest in paintings by Picasso, Matisse, and Stuart Davis. Back in England, after the war, he attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and Bath Academy of Art, Corsham.

In 1984 Hodgkin represented Britain at the Biennale di Venezia. His exhibition Forty Paintings reopened the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 1985, and he won the Turner Prize the same year. In 1998 Hodgkin joined Gagosian, and the gallery presented his first show in the United States since his critically acclaimed 1995–96 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which had traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; and Hayward Gallery, London.

His first full retrospective opened at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2006 and traveled to Tate Britain, London, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

Paper: 33 x 34.25 in (83.82 x 87.0 cm)
Subject Matter: Abstract
Created: 1989
Condition: Very Good
The item may have signs of aging, fading, or use (however minor), such as scratches, dings, and scuff marks. Print kept stored in flat file and never framed.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1980-1999
Materials:	silkscreen
Condition:	Good. The item may have signs of aging, fading, or use (however minor), such as scratches, dings, and scuff marks. Print kept stored in flat file and never framed.
Creation Date:	1989
Styles / Movements:	Abstract Expressionism, Color
Incollect Reference #:	673796