HOWARD HODGKIN

Titled "Venice: Night", one of the four views that the artist made in his Venetian Views series, signed with initials "H.H." lower left middle and dated 1995, editioned 9/30, lift-ground etching and aquatint from three copper plates, with carborundum from two aluminium plates, image size approximately 1.59 x 1.95m (62 1/2 x 77in); housed in a massive custom frame by Strand Fine Art, outer dimensions 1.89 x 2.24m (74 1/4 x 88in); the frame has been mounted with plywood and weighs several hundred pounds; Provenance: from the same London estate collection as the preceding 8 lots; Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin, British, 1932-2017, a painter and printmaker best known for abstraction; "Venice: Evening", from the same series, was sold at Phillips London for £32,450