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Girl At Night - Signed Print by Howard Hodgkin 1966 - MyArtBroker

Girl At Night
Signed Print

Howard Hodgkin

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 75

Year: 1966

Size: H 50cm x W 65cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Howard Hodgkin's Girl At Night (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,000 and £1,500. This lithograph print, created in 1966, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has an auction history of eight total sales since its entry to the market in May 2004. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £872 to £1,017, demonstrating an average return to the seller of £843. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2021Christie's London United Kingdom
September 2019Christie's London United Kingdom
April 2019Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom
March 2019Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
October 2017Uppsala Auktionskammare Sweden
December 2011Christie's London United Kingdom
January 2008Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Girl At Night is one of Hodgkin’s earliest attempts at printmaking. The artist created it in the second half of the 1960s when he was still teaching at Bath Academy of Art – the atheneum where he himself had studied just up until a few years before. The print is rather atypical of Hodgkin’s practice, both in subject matter and style, and offers a glimpse into the stylistic developments of what would become one of the greatest British artists of all times.

Girl At Night does not develop in full the abstract language that will become typical of Hodgkin’s later works, where colours explode on the paper surface through visible dynamic and energetic brushstrokes, the patches of colour of the print are here contained by clearly defined shapes that create a quasi-representational figure. The amorphous human figure in the foreground of the print is captured in a fluid movement, and any physiological feature is erased. While known to often depict palm trees, Hodgkin rarely represented other clearly identifiable subjects, making this print, and its sister Girl On A Sofa, a rare find in Hodgkin’s oeuvre. Comparingly, this print has the charm of simplicity, its formal composition almost gesturing to the Cubist vocabulary of Pablo Picasso.

  • 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.