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Girl On A Sofa - Signed Print by Howard Hodgkin 1968 - MyArtBroker

Girl On A Sofa
Signed Print

Howard Hodgkin

£1,200-£1,800 VALUE (EST.)

$2,300-$3,450 VALUE (EST.)

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1,400-2,100 VALUE (EST.)

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¥220,000-¥330,000 VALUE (EST.)

$1,500-$2,250 VALUE (EST.)

17% AAGR (5YR)

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Lithograph, 1968
Signed Print Edition of 75
H 52cm x W 65cm

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
November 2020Rago Arts and Auction Center - United StatesGirl On A Sofa - Signed Print
September 2020Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood - United KingdomGirl On A Sofa - Signed Print
November 2017Bonhams Knightsbridge - United KingdomGirl On A Sofa - Signed Print
May 2016Swann Auction Galleries - United StatesGirl On A Sofa - Signed Print
June 2015Phillips London - United KingdomGirl On A Sofa - Signed Print
September 2013Bonhams Knightsbridge - United KingdomGirl On A Sofa - Signed Print
December 2011Christie's London - United KingdomGirl On A Sofa - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

Girl On A Sofa, together with its sister Girl At Night and the other prints in the portfolio, was made when Hodgkin was still a teacher at Bath Academy of Art, his alma mater, and therefore represents one of the earliest prints in Hodgkin’s oeuvre.

The print presents an image of a girl – although Hodgkin’s amorphous representation makes it hard to distinguish any physiological features – depicted through a half red and half yellow circle and a black brushstroke that evokes movement. The body of the girl is instead represented through the use of a lighter colour, demarcated against a very bright orange background and a stripped, horizontal navy and white bottom.

As one of Hodgkin’s earliest prints, this work betrays some of the germinal stylistic features of his practice – a far cry from the explosive, dynamic and energetic language of his more well-known works. Here, the colours are contained in clearly delineated shapes, making this print more similar to Pablo Picasso’s cubist language, or even Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract paintings, than to the John Hoyland style to which Hodgkin is more usually compared. Beyond style, the subject matter of the print, confined in an interior space, further brings this image closer to Picasso’s famous depictions of women reclining in a chair, looking out of the window.

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