Lithograph on paper
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Bernard Jacobson
Purchased 1980
abstraction
banana
colour
countries and continents
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
from recognisable sources
India
irregular forms
landscape
memory
night
non-representational
places
sensuality
times of the day
universal concepts
<p>This print is dedicated to the art dealer and publisher Bernard Jacobson. It shows the view from a balcony in India at night; the yellow forms and blue dots represent banana leaves. The idea for the print grew out of Hodgkin’s abandoned project to illustrate EM Foster’s book <span>A Passage to India</span>. This was one of the first prints to be on the same scale as Hodgkin’s paintings. It is also one of the most technically complicated prints he has ever made. Not only are layers of printing and hand colouring interleaved, but each sheet of paper was hand-dyed using vegetable dyes to achieve its rich dark colour.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2019</em></p>
paper print 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)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
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
For Bernard Jacobson
image: 1057 × 1499 mm
Purchased 1980
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<p>This print is dedicated to the art dealer and publisher Bernard Jacobson. It shows the view from a balcony in India at night; the yellow forms and blue dots represent banana leaves. The idea for the print grew out of Hodgkin’s abandoned project to illustrate EM Foster’s book <i>A Passage to India</i>. This was one of the first prints to be on the same scale as Hodgkin’s paintings. It is also one of the most technically complicated prints he has ever made. Not only are layers of printing and hand colouring interleaved, but each sheet of paper was hand-dyed using vegetable dyes to achieve its rich dark colour.</p>
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<p><b>P07377</b> (i)–(ii) FOR BERNARD JACOBSON 1979
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<br/>Inscribed ‘Hodgkin 79’ bottom centre (both sheets) and ‘23/80’
<br/>Two-sheet lithograph with hand colouring, printed by Alan Cox at Sky Editions and published by Bernard Jacobson, 41 5/8×59 (105.7×150)
<br/>Purchased from Bernard Jacobson (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
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<br/>This was the first of Hodgkin's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> to approach the scale of his <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a>. It followed a group of much smaller hand-coloured <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>lithographs</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> made between 1977 and 1979. The hand-colouring is in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> (broad wash brushstrokes) and in wax crayon (the curved leaf-shapes). The print is on dyed <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a>: dying, printing and hand-colouring were all done at Sky Editions. The image is a scene on an Indian balcony at night, with banana trees below.
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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 banana colour countries and continents emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas from recognisable sources India irregular forms landscape memory night non-representational places sensuality times of the day universal concepts