On View
Not on viewObject number1996/7.40
First Portrait of Terence McInerney
Artist
Howard Hodgkin
(British, 1932 - 2017)
Date1981
Mediumoil on wood
Dimensionsframe: 50 × 55 1/8 in. (127 × 140 cm)
panel: 45 × 49 7/8 in. (114.3 × 126.7 cm)
panel: 45 × 49 7/8 in. (114.3 × 126.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Richard and Ethel Groos
Exhibition HistoryFrom Christie's Catalogue:
"London, Royal Academy of Arts, A New Spirit in Painting, Jan.-Mar. 1981, no. 62 (illustrated).
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Osaka, The National Museum of Art; Fukuoka Art Museum, and Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Aspects of British Art Today, Feb.-Oct. 1982, p. 160, no. 129 (illustrated).
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Howard Hodgkin: Recent Paintings, Nov.-Dec. 1982, no. 7.
Venice, XLI Biennale, British Pavilion; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Howard Hodgkin: Forty Paintings 1973-84, June 1984-Aug. 1985, p. 57 (illustrated).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Düsseldorf, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, and London, Hayward Gallery, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1975-1995, Nov. 1995-Feb. 1997, p. 60, no. 162 (illustrated)."
"KIA Art School Faculty Exhibition," KIA Galleries 2 & 5 (Oct. 25 - Nov. 23, 2003).
"Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends," National Portrait Gallery, London (March 23 - June 18, 2017).
"Unveiling American Genius," KIA Permanent Collection Exhibition, Traditional, Markin, Nay and Groos Galleries (March 1, 2021 - December 31, 2023).
Label TextHoward Hodgkin, born in London in 1932, studied and taught in England for many years before showing his works for the public in a series of traveling exhibitions throughout the world.
In his paintings, he works from a particular visual subject and gradually transforms it. The manner of this transformation is conditioned by various factors: by the aesthetic demands of the picture itself (for example, composition and color relationships), stylistic influences (Matisse, among others) and his own personality.
The result is a curious intensity. Hodgkin's titles restate the original subject; in this case, a portrait. First Portrait of Terence McInerney hovers just on nature's side of complete abstractedness, joining a convincing sense of life with abstraction and flatness.
