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Howard Hodgkin: ‘One of the Greatest Painters of the Last 50 Years’

Andrew Graham-Dixon — author of Howard Hodgkin, a study of the artist’s work — and Christie's Senior Specialist Katharine Arnold discuss two works by the late British painter. Howard Hodgkin, who died in March 2017 at the age of 84, is widely hailed as one of the finest abstract painters Britain has produced. But the abstract label never sat quite right with Hodgkin, who preferred to describe himself as a ‘representational painter… of emotional situations’. According to the art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon, author of Howard Hodgkin, a study of the artist’s work, this ambiguity is precisely what makes his art so powerful. Hodgkin is ‘one of the very greatest painters of the last 50 years,’ Graham-Dixon says, but his work ‘can’t easily be slotted into any of the neat, convenient pigeonholes of art history.’ Find out more: http://www.christies.com/features/How... -- Subscribe to Christie's YouTube: http://goo.gl/Vmh7Hf Sign up to Christie's Weekly: https://goo.gl/kc8qpV Follow Christie's on: Facebook:   / christies   Twitter:   / christiesinc   Instagram:   / christiesinc   Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/christiesinc