Green Château II

Artist Howard Hodgkin British, 1932 - 2017

Printer Alan Cox, printer for Sky Editions

Printer Don Bessant, printer for Sky Editions

Publisher Bernard Jacobson Graphics, publisher British, London

Date1978

MediumLithograph with gouache hand-coloring, mould-made paper

DimensionsImage Size: 6 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (16.8 x 21 cm)
Sight: 8 3/4 x 10 in. (22.2 x 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 14 13/16 x 10 1/4 in. (37.6 x 26 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 16 x 16 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (40.6 x 42.2 x 3.2 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineBequest to The Murray Collection in memory of Terry A. Murray

Object number2010.5.5

On View

Not on view

Collections

Modern and Contemporary Art
Works on Paper

SignedBottom center in the image area, in pencil, printed: "HH 78"

InscribedLL in the image area, in pencil: "7/12". Stamped in black ink on the reverse, lower frame spacer: "B.L. FRAMES INC./77 WHITE ST., N.Y. 10013/212-608-0967"

DescriptionEn suite with 3 others in the "Green Chateau" series (Hyde Murray collection, 1992.1.4, and 1995.10.9 and 1995.10.10). The four prints were made with a single zinc plate drawn in part with green fingerprint dots made with the artist's hand. These are denser in the upper half of the image and form a green diagonal swath there. The lower portion of the rectangle has an open area with an irregular organic shape outlined in the lower right. There is a more solid green 'figure' on the left side, an abstract peanut-like shape with two 'legs.'

The gouache in Green Chateau II is a dense orange-yellow.

Plain, flat-molded box frame of light-colored wood rubbed with white paint or stain.ProvenanceCollection of Jane S. Murray, New York, NY; by bequest to The Hyde Collection 2009.