Howard Hodgkin - Absolutely
From After All suite
Year: 2015-2016
Medium: Hand-painted sugar-lift aquatint with carborundum relief from 2 plates. Sugar-lift printed in Primrose Yellow/Zinc White mix with a touch of Viridian, then hand-painted in Ultramarine Blue and Spring Green. Overprinted with carborundum relief in Turquoise/Prussian Blue mix, on Velin Cuve BFK Rives Grey 280 gsm paper
Signed, dated, and numbered
From an edition of 30 plus proofs
Size: 13.25 x 17.25 in (33.5 x 44 cm)
Frame size: 24.75 x 27.25 (62.9 x 69.2 cm)
Price on request
About the Suite:
Howard Hodgkin first began making original prints in the 1950s. In later decades, he came to prefer the use of etching, aquatint, and carborundum combined with hand-painting; this suite, his final body of editioned graphics, is a portfolio of 18 hand-painted etchings utilizing this printing technique.
With titles like “Late Autumn”, “Raspberry Crumble”, and “Outspoken”, each of the unique prints in this suite speaks to a particular time, place, or memory. Each features elements from what the artist refers to as his language or vocabulary – incorporating his signature spots, stripes, “waves and wriggles.”