The Road to Rio

Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017)

Screenprint

2016

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© Howard Hodgkin. Courtesy of Counter Editions, London and Team GB

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, 100 Parliament Street
  • 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
    olympic games, abstract
    Materials & Techniques
    screenprint
  • Details
    Artist
    Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017)
    Title
    The Road to Rio
    Portfolio Title
    The Official Prints for Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
    Edition
    10/350
    Date
    2016
    Medium
    Screenprint
    Dimensions
    height: 76 cm, width: 60 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Counter Editions, July 2016
    Inscription
    bl: 10/350 ; br: H.H / 2016
    Provenance
    Counter Editions (Carl Freedman Ltd), purchased July 2016
    GAC number
    18688/3