Howard Hodgkin - Heatwave: Online Auction London Tuesday, September 19, 2023 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Since 1969, CPU-London has provided free, two-year long treatments of psychotherapy to people on benefits and low incomes from across London. We are a registered charity and rely entirely on fundraising to provide our services. CPU-London has a long reputation for clinical excellence and is highly regarded by patients and the clinical community. Cuts to psychotherapy services in the NHS mean that our charity has become increasingly important in its commitment to providing help to people in emotional distress. Every year, we need to raise about £250,000 to continue our work. We rely heavily on the generosity of artists, writers, psychoanalysts, and members of the public who share their time and talents to ensure that CPU-London continues its invaluable work.

    • Provenance

      Donated by the Howard Hodgkin Estate

    • Artist Biography

      Howard Hodgkin

      British • 1932 - 2017

      One of the greatest colorists of his generation, Howard Hodgkin explores the very nature of painting as both cultured language and sheer expression. He disregards the classical polarities of abstraction and representation, past and present, canvas and frame, using gestural brushstrokes and a vivid palette to emphasize the picture plane, while simultaneously seeking to convey memories and emotions.

      The seemingly casual, urgent quality of his paintings and prints belies a drawn-out process of making: it could take a year for Hodgkin to prepare to execute a single brushstroke. The resultant maximalist, saturated works on canvas, paper, wood and board can be intimately scaled and jewel-like, or oversized, opulent and theatrical. Whilst his early compositions have a collaged, geometric flatness, Hodgkin's later work (including etching and aquatint prints) increasingly incorporated more lush surface textures and complex, fluid patterns reminiscent of the Pahari miniatures from India, of which he was an avid collector.

      View More Works

Sold for the benefit of the Camden Psychotherapy Unit, a mental health charity in London

43

Ice

signed with the artist's initials and dated 'H.H. 2013' lower right; numbered 'AP 17/35' lower left
screenprint with ground light-fast pigments on Somerset white satin paper
75.6 x 60 cm (29 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.)
Executed in 2013, this work is artist's proof 17 from an edition of 350 plus 35 artist's proofs.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
£2,000 - 3,000 ♠†

Sold for £1,270

Contact Specialist

Louise Simpson
Associate Specialist, Head of Online Sale
+44 7887 473 568
lsimpson@phillips.com

Heatwave: Online Auction

19 - 26 September 2023