Girl on Sofa, from 5 Rooms
A vibrant and sensuous lithograph by Howard Hodgkin, *Girl on Sofa* employs his characteristically bold, gestural strokes of colour to evoke mood and atmosphere rather than precise figuration. Rich hues blend and overlap across the warm J. Green paper, suggesting the languid presence of a reclining figure absorbed into her surroundings. Part of the *5 Rooms* series, the work reflects Hodgkin's lifelong preoccupation with capturing fleeting moments of human experience through the expressive power of colour and form.
- Medium
- Lithograph in colours, on J. Green paper, the full sheet,
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
June 11, 2015
Spotted works by Howard Hodgkin
Artists in conversation
Patrick Heron
British · b. 1920
Heron similarly used bold, gestural fields of vivid colour in his prints and paintings to evoke sensation and mood rather than literal representation, sharing Hodgkin's expressive British abstraction rooted in domestic and sensory experience.
Cy Twombly
American · b. 1928
Twombly's lithographs and works on paper share Hodgkin's layering of gestural marks and rich colour to suggest fleeting human presence and emotional atmosphere rather than precise figuration, creating a similarly sensuous and evocative surface.
Cecily Brown
British · b. 1969
Brown's figurative works dissolve the reclining human form into swirling, painterly abstraction using lush overlapping colour, closely mirroring Hodgkin's approach of embedding a figure within expressive brushwork to capture mood and languid domestic intimacy.
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