Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Venice, Evening

This work is a response to a Venetian view at a particular time of day - evening. It is one of four in a series which depict the same view at different times of day - morning, afternoon, evening and night. Each work varies enormously in colour and mood. The spontaneous, painterly quality of this work conceals a complex painting process, which is the result of close collaboration between the artist and specialist printer Jack Shirreff. It is printed from five plates on to sixteen sheets of paper, or 'fragments'. Hodgkin favours the use of etching, aquatint and carborundum (silicon carbide) within the printing process. Each print is finished with hand-painting. This creates the superb texture and tone that is so characteristic of his prints.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 29720

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of DWT, Nerys Johnson Fund, 15/4/2011
Purchased with the assistance of the Nerys Johnson Contemporary Art Fund and the Derek Williams Trust

Measurements

Height (cm): 160
Width (cm): 196.5

Techniques

hand-painted lift-ground etching with aquatint

Material

paint
ink
Paper

Location

In store
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