Lot 162
  • 162

Howard Hodgkin

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Howard Hodgkin
  • Bleeding
  • signed and dated HH 81 in pencil (lower centre); inscribed and numbered A.P. 16 (lower centre)
  • lithograph printed in colours, with hand-colouring by Cinda Sparling
  • sheet: 91.4 by 151.7cm., 36 by 59 5/8 in.
  • Executed between 1981 and 1982, the present work is an Artist's proof (aside from the edition of 100).
with the printer's blindstamps verso, Solo Press Inc., New York, published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London, on buff Velin Arches mould-made paper  

Literature

Liesbeth Heenk, Howard Hodgkin Prints, London, 2003, no. 67

Condition

The full sheet, printed to the edges, in good condition, framed.
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Catalogue Note

In the preparation for Bleeding, the artist worked on a series of pencil studies inspired by Mughal qanat panels.