
The Hospital Room was Choked with Flowers Everybody Likes Flowers Surplus Flowers The Room... was Filling up with Flowers, from The Way We Live Now
A vibrant and emotionally charged print, this work by Howard Hodgkin employs his signature bold, gestural marks and rich, layered color to evoke an overwhelming sensory experience. The combination of etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring creates a lush, almost suffocating abundance, mirroring the title's suggestion of a space consumed by floral excess. Hodgkin's expressive use of color and form blurs the boundary between representation and abstraction, transforming a deeply human scene of illness and tenderness into a purely visceral encounter.
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint with hand-coloring, on laid paper, the full sheet.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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October 17, 2017
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