ID 1051302
Lot 2 | HOWARD HODGKIN (1932-2017)
Estimate value
£ 350 000 – 550 000
A Small Henry Moore at the Bottom of the Garden
signed and dated 'Howard Hodgkin/1976-77' (on the reverse)
oil on wood
20 ¾ x 21 in. (52.7 x 53.3 cm.)
Painted in 1975-77.
Provenance
with Kasmin Gallery, London.
John D. Rothschild, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 1990, lot 215A, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
N. Frackman, 'Howard Hodgkin - Stanley Boxer', Arts Magazine, Vol. 52, November 1977, p. 29.
T. Hyman, 'The Big Show', London Magazine, Vol. 17, November 1977, p. 56.
L. Rubinfein, 'Howard Hodgkin', Artforum, Vol. 16, December 1977, p. 68.
N. Serota (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Howard Hodgkin: Forty Paintings 1973-84, Venice, British Council, XLI Venice Biennale, 1984, pp. 30-31, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
L. Bortolon, 'I Misteriosi Giardini di Hodgkin', Grazia, 2 September 1984, p. 32, illustrated.
T. Hyman, exhibition catalogue, Howard Hodgkin: Small Paintings, Nantes, British Council, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1990, pp. 12, 17, no. 3, illustrated.
M. Auping, J. Elderfield, S. Sontag and M. Price, exhibition catalogue, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, 1995, pp. 52, 169, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
A. Graham-Dixon, Howard Hodgkin, London, 2001, pp. 140, 229, illustrated.
M. Price, Howard Hodgkin The Complete Paintings: Catalogue Raisonné, London, 2006, pp. 152-153, no. 139, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Howard Hodgkin: New Paintings, September - October 1977.
Zürich, André Emmerich Gallery, Howard Hodgkin: New Paintings, December 1977 - January 1978.
Venice, British Council, XLI Venice Biennale, Howard Hodgkin: Forty Paintings 1973-84, June - September 1984, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Washington DC, The Phillips Collection, October - December 1984; New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, January - March 1985; Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, April - May 1985; and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, June - August 1985.
Nantes, British Council, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Howard Hodgkin: Small Paintings, June - September 1990, no. 3: this exhibition travelled to Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, October - November 1990; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, December 1990 - February 1991; and Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, March - May 1991.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings, October 1995 - January 1996, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, March - July 1996; Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, August - October 1996; and London, Hayward Gallery, December 1996 - February 1997.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings Retrospective, February - May 2006, no.18: this exhibition travelled to London, Tate Britain, June - September 2006; and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, November 2006 - January 2007.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings, February - April 2007.
Artist: | Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Modern art |
Genre: | Still life |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Modern art |
Genre: | Still life |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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