A Storm
Howard Hodgkin
Following a visit to Oklahoma, Hodgkin was unable to forget having heard about the violent storms which had engulfed the state shortly before. It was at that time that he also recalled having been profoundly moved, many years earlier, by the stormy skies painted by the American artist Thomas Hart Benton, which provided thusly an inspiration for this work.
In "A Storm" Hodgkin employs his familiar frame-like structure, however the black cloud of ink is allowed to burst through the blue border and reache the edge of the sheet, evoking the elemental force of a storm. The atmospheric interaction of blue and green, combined with the amorphous swelling of the black cloud, makes it extremely difficult to distinguish printed from painted marks.
A copy of this work can be found in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery in London.
A Storm
Howard Hodgkin
- Artist
- Howard Hodgkin (b.1932)
- Title
- A Storm
- Medium
- Lithograph in colours with hand-colouring in gouache
- Date
- 1977
- Sheet
- 53.0 x 61.7 cm : 20 7/8 x 24 1/4 in. on Lexington handmade paper
- Edition
- From the edition of 100, signed, dated and numbered by the artist
- Publisher
- Petersburg Press, New York
- Printer
- Printed and hand coloured by Bruce Porter at Petersburg Press Studio, New York
- Notes
- Lithograph from three plates, with hand colouring in gouache - a green wash background with a second wash in blue and a blue border.
- Exhibited
- Howard Hodgkin: Prints 1977-1983, Tate Gallery, Sept.-Dec. 1985 (another example exhibited)
- Literature
- Heenk 36; Pat Gilmour, ‘Howard Hodgkin', Print Collector's Newsletter, vol. 12, March-April 1981, p.3; Jeremy Lewison ‘Howard Hodgkin, Carte d'Arte, no.0, 1987, p.21; The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.386 (another example illus. in col.)
- Reference
- CC15-21
- Status
- No longer available
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