Name: Indian View H
Brand: Howard Hodgkin
Rating: 5 (233 reviews)

Track auction value trend

Howard Hodgkin's Indian View H, a signed screenprint from 1971, is estimated to be worth between £650 and £950. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 19%. This is supported by the six total sales at auction since its entry to the market in June 2006. In the last 12 months, the hammer price has ranged from £363 in September 2023 to £650 in March 2023. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

Auction Date

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Hammer Price

Return to Seller

Buyer Paid

September 2023

Bonhams Knightsbridge

United Kingdom

September 2023

Link Auction Galleries

United States

March 2023

David Lay

United Kingdom

June 2017

Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales

United States

March 2015

Bonhams New York

United States

June 2006

Stair Galleries

United States

Meaning & Analysis

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 framed by a large ivory frame and a smaller yellow frame, which encapsulate a small orange view.

In Indian View H, the painterly quality of the print is similar to the pale, almost understated effect of watercolours, and works to suggest an image of transience and ephemerality. Hodgkin painted the image after he returned from one of his travels to India, deciding he wanted to capture all the feelings and memories of his train journeys across the country. While the evocation of India is clear from the title, the abstract quality of the image can only leave it up to the viewer to identify and read the print. After all, Hodgkin often repeated that he was not interested in representing reality, but rather in re-creating emotions through carefully-arranged colours and shapes.

As John McEwen noticed in his important monography on the artist, “Hodgkin speaks of portraying the “evasiveness of reality”, a realism that is “evanescent, frail and difficult to establish.”