Strictly Personal by Howard Hodgkin, b.1932

Howard Hodgkin, b.1932
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Strictly Personal

Original lift-ground etching with aquatint, hand-painted in scarlet and green acrylic. 2001. Signed in pencil with initials and dated 2001 (MM1). Numbered (1) in pencil from the edition of 55. Printed from three plates (two metal, one plastic with carborundum) and then hand-painted at the 107 Workshop, 2001.

Superb impression with brilliant colours. On hand-made wove paper from the Two Rivers papermill. Perfect condition. Worked to the full sheet size, as printed. Sheet: 11 3/4 x 13 1/2ins (300x343mm).

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Hodgkin is widely recognised as one of the greatest of all 'colourists' amongst contemporary abstract painters. His long fascination with printmaking has resulted in some superlative examples, as here, of the way in which colour and texture can be combined to create spatial form and movement.