Indian View J
Indian View J
Signed Print
Howard Hodgkin
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 75
Year: 1971
Size: H 58cm x W 78cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales | United States | |||
| May 2022 | Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales | United States | |||
| December 2020 | Chiswick Auctions | United Kingdom | |||
| June 2017 | Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales | United States | |||
| March 2015 | Bonhams New York | United States | |||
| June 2013 | Bonhams Knightsbridge | United Kingdom | |||
| February 2013 | Bonhams Knightsbridge | United Kingdom |
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 an abstract representation. Within a black painted frame, that occupies most of the composition, Hodgkin painted a small glimpse of intense reds, oranges and yellow, that come together almost to remind of a sunset.
Indian View J is one of the most literal out of Hodgkin’s Indian series. Whereas for other prints he preferred to focus on very abstract patterns of colours, arranged together to provoke an emotional response in the viewer, here the artist seems to be almost too representational. The image, like the other prints in the series, captures Hodgkin’s sights as he travelled through India by train. In the catalogue to an exhibition for the British Council in 1976, Hodgkin recounted that the prints in Indian Views are “…among the most literally representational works that I have produced and in format influenced by the shape and proportion of aeroplane windows and the windows of old fashioned Indian trains. They depict horizons, fields, mountains, skies, the sea and also different times of day.”
