LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on wood

Measurements:

22.99 in. (58.40 cm.) (height) by 22.99 in. (58.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed twice, titled and dated 'VENICE/RAIN 1984-1987 Howard Hodgkin' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Venice, California, L.A. Louver Gallery, The British Picture, 1988, p. 65 (illustrated in colour, p. 37). Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988: The World of Art Today, 1988, no. 25 (illustrated in colour, p. 73). London, Waddington Galleries, Howard Hodgkin, 1988, p. 20 (illustrated in colour, p. 21). This exhibition later travelled to New York, M. Knoedler & Co. Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Howard Hodgkin: Small Paintings, 1975-1989, 1990-1991, p. 60 (illustrated in colour, p. 61). This exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College. New York, Adelson Galleries In., The Poetic Trace: Aspects of British Abstraction Since 1945, 1992, no. 17 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Howard Hodgkin, 2006-2007, p. 220, no. 34 (illustrated in colour, p. 110; illustrated in colour on the exhibition announcement card). This exhibition later travelled to London, Tate Britain and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

Literature:

W. Feaver, 'Whoosh in Venice', in the Observer, 4 September 1988, p. 38. A. Graham-Dixon, 'Drawing on Life', in the Independent, 6 September 1988, p. 16. R, Dorment, 'Howard's Way', in The Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 24 November 1990, pp. 50-55 (illustrated, p. 53). M. Price (ed.), Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Paintings, Catalogue Raisonné, London 1995, no. 218 (illustrated, p. 188). M. Price (ed.), Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Paintings, Catalogue Raisonné, London 2006, no. 218 (illustrated in colour, p. 229).

Provenance:

M. Knoedler & Co., New York. L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California. Private Collection, Los Angeles. Adelson Galleries Inc., New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992.