Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art and South African Fine Wine

Live Virtual Auction, 26 - 28 July 2020

Monday Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 136 560
Lot 164
  • Howard Hodgkin; Bamboo
  • Howard Hodgkin; Bamboo
  • Howard Hodgkin; Bamboo
  • Howard Hodgkin; Bamboo
  • Howard Hodgkin; Bamboo
  • Howard Hodgkin; Bamboo


Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 136 560

About this Item

British 1932-2017
Bamboo

signed with the artist's initials, dated 2000, and numbered 103/108 in pencil in the margin

screenprint
73 by 84cm excluding frame; 120 by 130 by 4cm including frame

Notes

‘If every form of impressionistic naturalism is predicated on the urgency of representation in such a way as to fix on the canvas a lyrical sensation provoked by an experience of landscape, Hodgkin acts in exactly the opposite manner, painting concrete situations, sedimented in time, and organized according to a mnemonic principle ... What really matters, then, ... is fixing the instant permanently, the moment at which the memory remains fresh, before time has managed to erase its unique flavour. In this sense, it is understandable that Hodgkin’s work often requires lengthy periods of gestation … The reserve of memory obtained by displacing the present allows the artist permanently to fix various states of being in colour’.1

1. Source: https://howard-hodgkin.com/resource/paintings-emotional-site-by-alberto-fiz

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