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For Bernard Jacobson
Signed Print

Howard Hodgkin

£5,000-£7,500Value Indicator

$10,000-$15,000 Value Indicator

$9,000-$13,500 Value Indicator

¥45,000-¥70,000 Value Indicator

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¥960,000-¥1,440,000 Value Indicator

$6,000-$9,500 Value Indicator

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 80

Year: 1979

Size: H 106cm x W 150cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Howard Hodgkin's For Bernard Jacobson (signed) is estimated to be worth between £5,000 and £7,500. This lithograph print, created in 1979, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. This artwork has an impressive auction history, having been sold 22 times at auction since its initial sale on 10th December 1997. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £2,831, across 2 total sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,400 in September 2023 to £6,449 in June 2020, demonstrating the steady value growth of this piece. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 80.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
April 2024Sotheby's New York United States
April 2024Phillips New York United States
October 2023Phillips London United Kingdom
September 2023Christie's London United Kingdom
September 2023Phillips London United Kingdom
June 2023Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
November 2021Swann Galleries United States

Meaning & Analysis

For Bernard Jacobson, as the title indicates, is a work that Hodgkin produced for his dear friend Bernard Jacobson, a collector and art dealer that soon became a defining figure in the artist’s career, sponsoring and exhibiting Hodgkin’s works in the eponymous gallery. Hodgkin began the print with the intention of illustrating E M Foster’s book A Passage to India, a project he soon, however, abandoned. And yet, the evocative powers of India in Hodgkin’s mind are clear and well evident in this print, which can be seen as similar in tones and themes to Hodgkin’s series Palms and Indian Views. In the representation, Hodgkin recurred to dots, one of his preferred geometrical abstract motifs, to recreate an Indian nightly landscape, punctuated by yellow and blue palm and banana leaves.

The print constitutes one of Hodgkin’s first attempts at creating large-scale works on paper that would compete with the scale of his paintings. The technical complexity of the work, where printing and hand colouring interact, is also due to Hodgkin’s use of vegetable dyes, which he used to give the work its distinctive and rich dark blue background. A favourite of any Hodgkin’s fan, the incredible popular success of this print is testified by its constant presence in museum and gallery exhibitions, some of which include the Museum of Modern Art of New York and Tate Britain.

  • British artist Howard Hodgkin was a luminary of abstraction. Representing Britain at the 1984 Venice Biennale, winning the Turner Prize in 1985, and knighted in 1992, Hodgkin established a legacy by pushing the boundaries of convention. Indian culture and painting heavily influenced the artist's work, infiltrating it most obviously in his bold colour choices. Evoking the bliss of exotic travels and past memories, Hodgkin's abstract representations provide an intimate insight into his world. The vibrancy of his palette and expression of the brushstrokes distinguished the artist from his contemporaries, seeing him gain international recognition.

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