Name: Indian View E
Brand: Howard Hodgkin
Rating: 5 (231 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Howard Hodgkin’s Indian View E (signed), a screenprint from 1971, is estimated to be worth between £650 and £950. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 7%. There have been 11 total sales since its entry to the market in April 2006, with 2 sales in the last 12 months. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £296 in November 2020 to £706 in July 2024. The average return to the seller over this period was £439. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

Auction Date

Auction House

Location

Hammer Price

Return to Seller

Buyer Paid

July 2024

Chiswick Auctions

United Kingdom

July 2024

Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr

France

April 2022

Bonhams Knightsbridge

United Kingdom

November 2020

Ivey

Selkirk

September 2017

Bonhams Knightsbridge

United Kingdom

June 2017

Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales

United States

June 2017

Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales

United States

Meaning & Analysis

This signed screenprint from 1971 is a rare, limited edition of 75 from Howard Hodgkin’s Indian Views series. The horizontal print shows a simple and abstract representation. The image is dominated by the small patch of blacks, reds and greens arranged in the form of a cross the centre of the composition, framed by a washed down sepia tone that covers and softens the underlying black.

Hodgkin created Indian View E after his return to the United Kingdom from one of his many, yearly trips in India. The image captures a fleeting view from a train window the artist had throughout his journey. While in many prints of the series Hodgkin uses colour to suggest a certain landscape, here the palette of colours do little to help a visual analysis: maybe a night view of a field? In any case, Hodgkin would resist literal interpretations of his images, and would privilege instead that the viewer focused on the emotional response elicited by the print.

As John McEwen stated: “If some of Hodgkin’s images seem hermetic, encapsulating a meaning known only to the artist, it may be because we look too eagerly for signs of the recognisable rather than allowing the colour and dorm to affect us gradually.”