Howard Hodgkin

Summer Evening

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Howard Hodgkin

1932 - 2017

Summer Evening

signed in pencil, dated, inscribed and numbered AP 2/5

carborundum relief from three plates printed in colours, with hand-colouring on Moulin du Gué paper

sheet: 881 by 1250 mm. 34⅝ by 49⅛ in.

Executed in 2014; this impression is one of five artist's proofs aside from the edition of 18, printed by Andrew's Printworks, Poole, published by Alan Cristea Gallery, London.

Alan Cristea Gallery, Howard Hodgkin Green Thoughts, London 2014, no. 8, p. 23, illustration in colour of another impression

"But the titles also intimate another relation to pleasure with their naming of weather and seasons and times of day. The most common weather is rain; the season is invariably autumn; if a time of day is cited, its usually sunset – which, apart from being the biggest colour story in the daily existence of most people, has a large place in the thesaurus of melancholy. All those titles with ‘sunset’, ‘autumn’, ‘after…’, ‘goodbye to…’, ‘the last time…’ suggest the pensive shadow cast on all pleasures when they are framed, theatricalized even, as acts of memory. Hodgkin may often be en voyage, but not as a beholder (the Impressionist project). In place of a beholder, there is a rememberer. Both pursuits, that of the traveller and that of the collector, are steeped in elegiac feeling."

Susan Sontag

"About Hodgkin", in Enrique Juncosa (ed.) Writers on Howard Hodgkin, Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, 2006, p.106