Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932)
114 Sinclair Road
signed with the initials 'H H' (lower right)
oil on canvas
35 x 44in. (88.9 x 111.7cm.)
Painted circa 1957
Provenance
James Lynch, Oxford
Waddington Galleries Ltd., London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1985
Literature
M. Auping, J. Elderfield, S. Sontag & M. Price, Howard Hodgkin Paintings, London 1995, no. 4 (illustrated p. 138).
Exhibited
London, RBA Galleries, London Group 1959, Annual Exhibition, April-May 1959, no. 221.
Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, Howard Hodgkin, Forty-Five Paintings 1949-1975, March-April 1976, no. 3 (illustrated in colour). This exhibition later travelled to London, Serpentine Gallery, May 1976; Leigh, Turnpike Gallery, June 1976; Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, July-August 1976; Aberdeen, Aberdeen Art Gallery, August-September 1976 and Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, September-October 1976.
Lot Essay
The title of this work relates to Hodgkin's London address at the time he executed the painting.