Night Palm

Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017)

Hand-coloured etching

1990-1991

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Turkey
    City: Istanbul
    Place: British Consulate-General
  • About the artist
    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.
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    Subjects
    abstract, tree, palm, night
    Materials & Techniques
    etching, hand-coloured etching
  • Details
    Artist
    Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017)
    Title
    Night Palm
    Edition
    44/55
    Date
    1990-1991
    Medium
    Hand-coloured etching
    Dimensions
    height: 149.50 cm, width: 120.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Presented by the Department for International Development, January 2005
    Inscription
    44/55; HH 91
    GAC number
    16859