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For Antony
Signed Print

Howard Hodgkin

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26 x 42cm, Edition of 100, Etching

Medium: Etching
Edition size: 100
Year: 2015
Size: H 26cm x W 42cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: April 2018
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April 2018
Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh
United Kingdom
$2,900
$3,400
$4,250
October 2017
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
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The value of Howard Hodgkin's For Antony (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,800 and £4,200. This etching print, created in 2015, has been sold twice at auction since its initial sale on 24th October 2017. There have been no sales in the last 12 months. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Meaning & Analysis

For Antony belongs to the last stage of Hodgkin’s works on paper, and is one of the most personal prints that Hodgkin produced towards the end of his life, two years before his death in 2017. As the title suggests, the print represents a dedication to Hodgkin’s life-long partner, Antony Peattie, a British music writer and literary critic. Hodgkin produced the print to honour his partner’s recent book, The Private Life of Lord Byron (2015), which was gifted to each buyer of the artist’s work.


Cristea Roberts Gallery featured the print in one of the largest retrospectives made on Hodgkin’s prints, entitled Howard Hodgkin: Strictly Personal, held in London from October to December 2019 in honour of the artist’s commitment to and love for printmaking. The exhibition was divided into two parts. Whilst the first focused on Hodgkin’s early production, featuring works produced from 1966 to 2005, Part II, where For Antony was exhibited, offered instead a posthumous assessment of the artistic shifts occurring in Hodgkin’s style from 2006 to 2017. Chief amongst the stylistic and thematic evolution of Hodgkin’s works, according to the Gallery, was the artist’s predilection for evoking his memories and experiences through vitality and even, in the words of the curator, “wildness”, as evident in this beautiful and personal image.

  • British artist Howard Hodgkin was a luminary of abstraction. Representing Britain at the 1984 Venice Biennale, winning the Turner Prize in 1985, and knighted in 1992, Hodgkin established a legacy by pushing the boundaries of convention. Indian culture and painting heavily influenced the artist's work, infiltrating it most obviously in his bold colour choices. Evoking the bliss of exotic travels and past memories, Hodgkin's abstract representations provide an intimate insight into his world. The vibrancy of his palette and expression of the brushstrokes distinguished the artist from his contemporaries, seeing him gain international recognition.

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