Howard Hodgkin - Outspoken
From After All suite
Year: 2015-2016
Medium: Hand-painted sugar-lift aquatint from 2 plates. Printed in Portland Black/Titanium White mix, and then in Raw Sienna/Zinc White/Diarylide Yellow mix, Vermillion Red and Ultramarine/Zinc White mix, on Velin Cuve BFK Rives Tan 280 gsm paper
Signed, dated, and numbered
From an edition of 30 plus proofs
Size: 14.25 x 16.5 in (36 x 42 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.”