The 2014 Terrence Higgins Trust Auction catalogue

HOWARD HODGKIN CH, CBE
HOME, 2001
Hand-painted sugar lift-ground etching with aquatint from two copper plates on
280gsm Two Rivers 100 per cent cotton paper
Paper and image: 36.8cm x 41.4cm
Artist’s proof from edition of 50
Framed to artist’s specifications
Signed with initials and dated in Roman numerals in pencil recto
Catalogue raisonné reference: Thames & Hudson 112
Executed 2001
Howard Hodgkin is one
Britain’s most important
painters and printmakers.
He studied at the Camberwell
School of Art, followed by the
Bath Academy of Art. He has
served as a trustee of the
Tate Gallery and the National
Gallery and in 1992 was
knighted.
Hodgkin’s paintings and prints
often refer to memories and
private experiences, but
deliberately avoid the
figurative. Since the 1950s,
he has made a substantial
number of original prints and
over the last 20 years has
favoured the use of etching
and aquatint combined with
hand-painting.
Home is one of a group of small etchings the artist made from 2000-2001 at 107 Workshop
in Wiltshire. It is a classic composition of the artist’s oeuvre, built-up using layer upon layer of
printed and hand-painted colour, finished with the motif that echoes the hand-painted frames
which surround many of the paintings.
£3,000 - £4,000
Donated by: Howard Hodgkin CH, CBE
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