Mango

Location

Country: India
City: Mumbai
Place: British Deputy High Commission

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

Subjects

abstract, fruit (as food type)

Materials & Techniques

carborundum print, hand-coloured, intaglio print

Artist

Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017)

Title

Mango

Edition

Working proof

Date

1990-1991

Medium

Intaglio print with carborundum from one aluminium plate, printed in viridian green and apricot yellow, with hand-colouring in veronese green egg tempera

Dimensions

height: 76 cm, width: 110.5 cm

Acquisition

Presented by Sir Howard Hodgkin, March 2017

Inscription

Signed and dedicated by artist, bc: HH 91 For the British Deputy High Commission / MUMBAI

Provenance

Presented by Howard Hodgkin, March 2017

GAC number

18716