Gouache and lithograph on paper
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Moonlight
Purchased 1981
abstraction
arrow
astronomy
colour
inscriptions
irregular forms
moonlight
non-representational
symbols and personifications
paper unique gouache lithograph
31 July 2003 – 31 August 2003
2003-08-31
31 July 2003 – 31 August 2003
2003-08-31
2003-07-31
Tate Britain (London, UK)
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2003-07-31
Howard Hodgkin Prints
Collection based display
15 December 2014 – 28 July 2016
2016-07-28
15 December 2014
2014-12-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-12-15
Howard Hodgkin Lodge Display
Collection based display
Moonlight
support: 1118 × 1413 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07433</b> MOONLIGHT 1980
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<br/>Inscribed ‘HH 1980’ bottom left and ‘4/100’
<br/>Two-sheet lithograph with hand-colouring, printed by Solo Press, New York, published by Bernard Jacobson, 44× 55 5/8 (111.6×141.2)
<br/>Purchased from Bernard Jacobson (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
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<br/>This (with another version of the same image, ‘Black Moonlight’) was Hodgkin's second large <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/diptych" title="Glossary definition for 'Diptych'"><span>diptych</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithograph</span></a>, although this time made with Judith Solodkin at Solo Press. The arrow is painted across both sheets with a stencil, and the other brushstrokes of hand-colouring are thin enough to allow the printed imagery beneath to be apparent.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-11T00:00:00
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abstraction arrow astronomy colour inscriptions irregular forms moonlight non-representational symbols and personifications