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Night Palm

Printer Jack Shirreff British
Publisher Waddington Graphics British
1990–91
Not on view
Night Palm and Street Palm (MMA 1995.467.2) are part of a group of four prints based on one of Hodgkin's favorite motifs, the palm tree. Hodgkin had fond memories of the colorful, large-scale travel posters that were prevalent in the Paris Métro in the 1950s and '60s—symbols of a certain postwar glamour and directness he hoped to evoke with these bright and spontaneous compositions. They were printed by Jack Shirreff at 107 Workshop in Wiltshire—the master printer who introduced Hodgkin to the process of using Carborundum (a mixture of carbon and silicon that lends the prints a painterly texture).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Night Palm
  • Artist: Howard Hodgkin (British, London 1932–2017 London)
  • Printer: Jack Shirreff (British, born Colombo, 1943–2017)
  • Publisher: Waddington Graphics
  • Date: 1990–91
  • Medium: Collagraph with yellow and green matte paints (handcoloring)
  • Edition: from an edition of 55 + 15 artist's proofs, 3 printer's proofs, and 1 bon á tirer
  • Dimensions: 58 3/4 × 47 5/8 in. (149.2 × 121 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 1995
  • Object Number: 1995.467.1
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Howard Hodgkin
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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