Moroccan Door

A vibrant and sensory evocation of memory and place, Howard Hodgkin's *Moroccan Door* employs richly layered etching with carborundum to build dense, tactile fields of colour that pulse with warmth and intensity. The hand-colouring in egg tempera adds a luminous, jewel-like quality to the surface, amplifying the work's sense of intimate encounter with an exotic architectural threshold. Printed on Du Chene hand-made paper, the composition reflects Hodgkin's characteristic blurring of abstraction and emotional recollection, transforming a simple doorway into a charged meditation on travel and sensation.