Howard Hodgkin
55.9 x 45.7 cm
Medium: Aquatint from two copper plates printed in black, 1973/74 - 78, red & orange with hand colouring in orange gouache, on cream coloured Velin Arches hand made paper, signed by the artist with initials in pencil and numbered (lower centre)
Size: Plate size: 206 x 310 mms (8” x 12 ⅛” inches) Sheet size: 445 x 600 mms (17 ⅛” x 23 ⅜” inches”
Edition: 25/50 - There were also 4 artists proofs
Proofed & Printed by: Maurice Payne at Petersburg Studios, London
Hand-coloured by : Sam Hodgkin under the straits supervision, 1978
Published by: Petersburg Press, 1978
Note: “Interior (Day) and Interior (Night) were torn down after publication. Their broad borders, signature, numbering and date were torn off. Fifty copies of each print were then hand coloured, signed, numbered and dated again and these were entitled “Breakfast” and “Bed” respectively.
Literature: Lisbeth Heenk “Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Prints” Number 45 Lenore Miller: Howard Hodgkin prints: Vision and Collaboration, Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington DC, 1994 (n.p)
Exhibitions: 31/10/2019/21/12/2019 : Cristea Roberts Gallery : “Howard Hodgkin: Strictly personal”