Description
SURPRISE, SURPRISE
2015
Sugar-lift aquatint with hand-colouring on Velin Cuve BFK Rives Tan 280gsm paper
36 × 42cm
Edition 17 of 30
Framed
Guide Price: £5,000
Howard Hodgkin was born in London in 1932. He studied at the Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art in the early 1950s. He first visited India in 1964, returning every year for many years. Hodgkin spent a period teaching until 1972. He was Trustee of the Tate Gallery (1970-76) and of the National Gallery, London (1978-85). In 1984 he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and he was awarded the Turner Prize in 1985. He was knighted in 1992 and made a Companion of Honour in 2002. In 2014 Hodgkin won the first Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon award. His work has been the subject of numerous major retrospectives around the world, most notably at The Metropolitan Museum, New York (1995); Tate Britain, London (2006); and the National Portrait Gallery, London (2017). His paintings and prints are held in major museums and collections worldwide. Hodgkin designed the set and costumes for several opera and ballet productions. In 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired over 80 paintings and drawings from Hodgkin’s collection of Indian art. Hodgkin died aged 84 in London in 2017.
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