Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017)
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SWIMMING 2011 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P8370 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
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MOROCCAN DOOR 1990/91 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P5928 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
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FOR BERNARD JACOBSON 1977-79 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P5010 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
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SUN 1976 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P2315 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
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LARGE JAPANESE SCREEN 1964/66 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P834 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
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SKY 1976 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P2314 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
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TROPIC FRUIT 1981 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P4166 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
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NIGHT PALM 1990/91 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P5932 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
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STILL LIFE 1980 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P4165 ©
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INDIAN VIEW J 1971 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P1667 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin was born in London, the son of a prominent artistic family. He studied at Camberwell College of Art and at Bath Academy of Arts, where he returned later as a teacher. Hodgkin’s pictures of friends and places attempted to capture the abstract qualities of a particular time, place and area and to make permanent in pictorial form the impermanence of feeling. Close friends and passionate moments were the subjects of his work, as well as artists he admires and the landscape of India he came to know well.
Hodgkin was selected to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1984 and the British Council organised his exhibition at the British Pavilion.
Read more about Hodgkin's Pavilion show
In 1992, Hodgkin was commissioned by the British Council to collaborate closely with Indian architect and RIBA gold medallist, Charles Correa on the production of a mural for the front of a new building for the British Council in Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, India.
Find out about the mural
Printmaking has always formed an important part of Hodgkin’s working practice. He served as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery and of the National Gallery, London. He was knighted in 1992.
Further reading:
Howard Hodgkin Forty Paintings 1973 - 1984, The British Council 1984
Liesbeth Heenk, Howard Hodgkin Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, London 2003
Obituary https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries