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The Road To Rio - Signed Print by Howard Hodgkin 2016 - MyArtBroker

The Road To Rio
Signed Print

Howard Hodgkin

£1,150-£1,750Value Indicator

$2,400-$3,650 Value Indicator

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76 x 59cm, Edition of 350, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 350
Year: 2016
Size: H 76cm x W 59cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: January 2025
Value Trend:
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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
January 2025
Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh
United Kingdom
$1,050
$1,250
$1,550
December 2024
Tate Ward Auctions
United Kingdom
June 2024
Phillips London
United Kingdom
October 2023
Chiswick Auctions
United Kingdom
June 2023
Phillips London
United Kingdom
May 2023
Tate Ward Auctions
United Kingdom
March 2023
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
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The value of Howard Hodgkin's The Road To Rio (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,150 and £1,750. This screenprint, created in 2016, has an auction history of 20 total sales since its entry to the market on 5th December 2017. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £919, across 3 sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £800 in June 2024 to £2,600 in December 2022. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is -7%. This piece is part of a limited edition of 350.

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Meaning & Analysis

The Road To Rio, like Welcome, Swimming and Ice, was the last work that Hodgkin produced on the occasion of the Olympics. Produced in 2016, just a year prior to the artist’s death, this works commemorates the participation of Team GB in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose green, blue and yellow flag the work recalls. Like his previous works, this print was commissioned by the British Olympics Association, which, since 1912, has been funding the creation of posters for each Olympic Game in which Team GB participated. Hodgkin first created the work as a painting, and subsequently proceeded to reproduce it on paper, brilliantly transposing the energy and dynamism of his painterly brushstrokes through print. In the words of Counter Editions, who published the print: “Bold and euphoric, The Road To Rio captures the energy and spirit of Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Jungle-green, sand-yellow, and the blue of the Brazilian sky and sea are used in an exhilarating display of Hodgkin’s painterly genius. The assertive washes of colour achieve maximum expression with limited means: Hodgkin’s painterly restraint has increased with age. This meticulously crafted screen-print is built up from twenty-two separate layers of colour. The process creates both the thinnest translucent marks and the thickest textural strokes characteristic of Hodgkin’s work.”

The last of a beloved series of prints, the rich colourfulness and the expressionist prowess of Hodgkin’s strokes made The Road to Rio the perfect work to embody the determination and resilience of Team GB throughout the Games.

  • 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.