This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Howard Hodgkin: Memories, and explores the art of Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017), who is widely regarded as one of the leading British painters of the last fifty years. Described by the eminent ar t critic Robert Hughes as 'a colourist unsurpassed among living painters', during a seventy-year career Hodgkin forged a deeply personal visual language in which colour , brushwork and mark-making evoke memories and their associated emotions. Bringing together nineteen of the artist's most distinctive paintings, Howard Hodgkin: Memories focuses on the 1980s and 1990s, two decades during which Hodgkin's art attained the stylistic maturity and expressive vitality that secured international recognition.
Containing an essay and biographical survey by the exhibition's curator Paul Moorhouse, this publication considers the wide-ranging natur e of Hodgkin's subject matter which provided the context for the 'emotional situations' that Hodgkin recalled in paintings of compelling expressive presence.
