Howard Hodgkin
Title: Away
Medium: Sugar lift-ground etching and aquatint, 2002/2003, from one copper plate, printed in USA bone black, with hand colouring in Turners Yellow, cadmium red and green acrylic. Printed on 100% cotton paper from Two Rivers paper mill, Watchet, Somerset (280 gsm), hand made by Jim Patterson, with irregular edges, Signed by the artist with initials and dated in pencil, numbered in pencil lower right.
Size: Image & Sheet 9 234 x 280 cms (9 ¼” x 11” inches)
Edition: 50. There were also 15 artists proofs , 5 Printers proofs and 1 BAT
Published by : Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Printed and hand-coloured by : Jack Shirreff, assisted by Andrew Smith and Claire Wait at the 107 Workshop, Wiltshire
Literature: Lisbeth Heenk “Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Prints” Number 108
Alan Cristea (intro) Howard Hodgkin Volume 1 Small prints , Alan Cristea Gallery, London 2001 (n.p) illustrated in colour
