This is the first ever comprehensive survey and catalogue raisonne of Howard Hodgkin, compiled by Liesbeth Heenk. It includes a major essay by Nan Rosenthal, Senior Consultant in the Department of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Hodgkin began in 1953 and has now made over 140 works on paper. Far from seeing them as poor relations to his paintings, he has consistently explored the print medium for its own sake, making astonishingly varied, emotive, and persuasive works that are paradoxically unique as well as multiples. While he favors gestural mark-making, he chooses to work at one remove, giving his assistants detailed instructions and using metaphors such as to handle the material "like a silk stocking."
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