HOWARD HODGKIN

Howard Hodgkin began with the 1937 evening jacket designed by Charles James (Fig. 1), "One of the most original fashion designers of the twentieth century". "It is like a piece of architecture applied to the body and yet produces an effect of total glamour, achieved with great economy (really just a piece of old eiderdown). The jacket has a presence and autonomy which renders the wearer almost incidental, simply a prop on which to display the strong arabesque forms which stand away from the body with a life of their own". ‘... British painter and printmaker Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (1932 - 2017) was a British painter and printmaker.

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