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Screenprint, 1971
Signed Print Edition of 75
H 78cm x W 58cm
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Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
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April 2022 | Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom | Indian View E - Signed Print | |||
November 2020 | Ivey-Selkirk - United States | Indian View E - Signed Print | |||
September 2017 | Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom | Indian View E - Signed Print | |||
June 2017 | Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales - United States | Indian View E - Signed Print | |||
June 2017 | Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales - United States | Indian View E - Signed Print | |||
May 2017 | Doyle New York - United States | Indian View E - Signed Print | |||
March 2011 | Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom | Indian View E - Signed Print |
This signed screenprint from 1971 is a rare, limited edition of 75 from Howard Hodgkin’s Indian Views series. The horizontal print shows a simple and abstract representation. The image is dominated by the small patch of blacks, reds and greens arranged in the form of a cross the centre of the composition, framed by a washed down sepia tone that covers and softens the underlying black.
Hodgkin created Indian View E after his return to the United Kingdom from one of his many, yearly trips in India. The image captures a fleeting view from a train window the artist had throughout his journey. While in many prints of the series Hodgkin uses colour to suggest a certain landscape, here the palette of colours do little to help a visual analysis: maybe a night view of a field? In any case, Hodgkin would resist literal interpretations of his images, and would privilege instead that the viewer focused on the emotional response elicited by the print.
As John McEwen stated: “If some of Hodgkin’s images seem hermetic, encapsulating a meaning known only to the artist, it may be because we look too eagerly for signs of the recognisable rather than allowing the colour and dorm to affect us gradually.”