When he began making abstract prints in his early thirties, Howard Hodgkin immediately displayed a knack for arresting imagery: Enter Laughing (1964), with its geometric shapes and irregular composition, might be entirely abstract, or it might be a depiction of a collage in which four large teardrop-shaped flies escape the realm of representation and take on a life of their own. In any case it was exhibited, alongside work by David Hockney, Bridget Riley and Peter Blake, at a group show at the ICA in London in the year of its creation and marked the start of five decades of Hodgkin’s experimentation with prints. This exhibition allows visitors to appreciate his evolving approach to printmaking, which grew increasingly painterly over the years: some prints on display were hand-painted by Hodgkin and, as such, stand apart from more mass-produced works in the medium (1 October–8 March 2026).
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