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  • Howard Hodgkin b1932
  • Come into the Garden, Maud 2000-3
  • (Oil on wood)
  • 1898 x 2508mm
  • Purchased from Gagosian Gallery, London with assistance from Tate Members, Tate Annual Fund, The Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation and an anonymous donor 2007
  • Tate © Howard Hodgkin
  • T12322
  • View work within Tate Collection
Howard Hodgkin: Come into the Garden, Maud

© Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin is widely regarded as one of the most important painters working in Britain today. Rather than express the outward appearance of objects or places, the artist instead aims to communicate the memory of a specific experience. His paintings accordingly exist somewhere between representation and abstraction. Come into the Garden, Maud, inspired Alfred Tennyson's poem Maud, A Monodrama of 1857, demonstrates the continuing development of this tendency. In this large work the bold gestural strokes and primary colours that have dominated his paintings for the last 30 years have been abandoned in favour of more restrained and reductive painterly effects.

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