GIRL AT NIGHT

© courtesy Howard Hodgkin

GIRL AT NIGHT 1966

Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017)

Details

Dimension
50.1 X 65.2 CM
Media
LITHOGRAPH
Accession number
P7752

Summary

Girl at Nightis concerned with a recurrent theme in Hodgkin’s work: the inter-relationship of figure and interior. Although the print was grouped with four others similar ’interior’ works, that had not been the artist’s original intention, but had come about following an invitation from Paul Cornwall-Jones of Edition Alecto to make some prints. The curving colourful abstract forms of the print bear some resemblance to his paintings, but the artist has always maintained that there is no such convergence between such works. Each stands alone, the prints being lighter and more immediate and expressive; qualities the artist regards as characteristic of the graphic medium.

Glossary

  • Edition

    All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.

  • Medium

    Refers to either the material used to create a work of art, craft or design, i.e. oil, bronze, earthenware, silk; or the technique employed i.e. collage, etching, carving. In painting the medium refers to the binder for the pigment, e.g. oil, egg, acrylic dispersion. The plural form is media.

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