Venice, Night, from Venetian Views
Howard Hodgkin British
Printer Jack Shirreff British
Publisher Alan Cristea Gallery
Not on view
Venice, Night is one of four prints comprising Hodgkin’s Venetian Views series, which grew out of the artist’s unrealized plan to illustrate Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice (1912). Among the most complex prints the artist has produced, each print in the series is based on an imaginary view of the city at a different time of day, printed from the same five printing plates. While the other three in the series are richly colored and executed on sixteen separate sheets, Venice, Night is a diptych in black and gray. Certain marks and formats are repeated throughout the series, but each work exudes its own distinct mood and emotional tenor. The Venice prints retain the exhilarating immediacy of the artist's paintings in the high drama of their surging, explosive forms.
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