Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin produced the limited edition print, Indian Leaves, in 1982 on the occasion of the exhibition, Indian Leaves, at Tate Britain (formerly known as Tate Gallery), 22 September - 11 November 1982. The exhibition showed paintings that Hodgkin produced in 1978 during a trip to India, where he was invited to stay by the Sarabhai family whose compound was opposite a paper mill in Ahmedabad. Each day they supplied him with paper freshly made in the mill. Hodgkin worked on the wet paper with brushes and rags dipped in vegetable dyes in rich colours. He painted vignettes he recalled from previous trips to India.

To accompany the exhibition, Hodgkin’s print publisher Paul Cornwall-Jones of Petersburg Press asked him to make a lithograph for the deluxe version of the catalogue. Hodgkin created Indian Leaves, 1982/2024, inspired by his experiences in India. He approved and signed the final proof of the edition, referred to as the Bon à Tirer (B.A.T.). Although the edition was printed, it was not used for the catalogue and so it remained unpublished.

42 years after the Tate exhibition, the Howard Hodgkin Legacy Trust have made the lithographs available to a small selection of cultural institutions. Tate is the first institution in London to release the edition for sale. The artwork is not signed by the artist but is stamp-signed and editioned by the Howard Hodgkin Legacy Trust. The lithograph is accompanied by individual certificates of authenticity, which are signed by the Trustees of the Howard Hodgkin Legacy Trust.

• Artist Howard Hodgkin
• Artwork Indian Leaves, 1982/2024
• Exhibition Indian Leaves
• Dimensions 23 x 76.3 cm
• Material Lithograph print on Japanese Gampi Torinoko paper
• Edition Limited edition of 500 (Roman) and 500 (Arabic), of which Tate has 100 available for sale. Stamp-signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (b. London, UK, 1932 – 2017) was a painter and printmaker and is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working in Britain in the late 20th and early 21st century. Major exhibitions during his lifetime include the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1976, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1985, Hayward Gallery, London, 1996, and Tate Britain, London, 2006, which toured to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2006, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2006. His work continues to be exhibited around the world and is included in many international museum collections. His many professional positions included teaching at Chelsea from 1966–72, Trustee of the Tate Gallery 1970–6 and of the National Gallery from 1978–85. He represented Great Britain at the 1984 Venice Biennial. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1985 and was knighted in 1992.