Mud on the Nile

Location

Country: Egypt
City: Cairo
Place: British Embassy

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born into a family long connected with the arts. His art teacher at school, Wilfred Blunt, introduced him to Indian painting, which, together with the work of Henri Matisse, was an important and continued source of inspiration. Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, Hodgkin was evacuated to America and returned to England in 1943. He spent a brief period at Camberwell School of Art in 1949, and from 1950 to 1954, he studied at the Bath Academy, Corsham, in Wiltshire. He subsequently taught at Corsham and also at the Chelsea School of Art, London. He was a Trustee of the National and Tate Galleries, and was awarded the CBE in 1977, and knighted in 1992. Hodgkin exhibited in the First India Triennale in 1968; represented Britain at the 1984 Venice Biennial; and won the Turner Prize in 1985. In 2000 he designed a mural for the new British Council building in New Delhi.

Places

River Nile, Egypt

Subjects

abstract, river

Materials & Techniques

oil, wood, oil painting

Artist

Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017)

Title

Mud on the Nile

Date

1993

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

height: 41.50 cm, width: 46.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Anthony d'Offay, February 1994

Inscription

verso (4 times) tl: Mud on the Nile / Howard Hodgkin / 1993 ; verso cr: MUD ON THE / NILE / Howard / Hodgkin / 1993. ; verso bl: H H / 19 93 ; verso br: H H

Provenance

Purchased from Anthony d'Offay in February 1994

GAC number

16833