The World's Largest Modern & Contemporary Prints & Editions Platform
Welcome - Signed Print by Howard Hodgkin 1983 - MyArtBroker

Welcome
Signed Print

Howard Hodgkin

£650-£950Value Indicator

$1,250-$1,850 Value Indicator

$1,150-$1,700 Value Indicator

¥6,000-¥9,000 Value Indicator

800-1,150 Value Indicator

$6,500-$9,500 Value Indicator

¥130,000-¥190,000 Value Indicator

$850-$1,250 Value Indicator

-5% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

There aren't enough data points on this work for a comprehensive result. Please speak to a specialist by making an enquiry.

Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 150

Year: 1983

Size: H 85cm x W 62cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

TradingFloor

1 in network
Find out how Buying or Selling works.
Track this artwork in realtime

Watch artwork, manage valuations, track your portfolio and return against your collection

Track auction value trend

The value of Howard Hodgkin's Welcome (signed) lithograph print, created in 1983, is estimated to be worth between £650 and £950. This artwork has an auction history of 20 total sales since its initial sale on 3rd May 2000. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £600, across 1 sale. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £526 in September 2022 to £1,096 in June 2022. The average annual growth rate for this work is -5%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 150.

Unlock up-to-the-minute market data on Howard Hodgkin's Welcome, login or create a free account today

Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
September 2022Litchfield Auctions United States
June 2022Wright United States
March 2021Freeman's United States
March 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
September 2020Wright United States
October 2019Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Sarajevo, also known as Winter Sports and Welcome, constitutes one of Hodgkin’s most surprising and rare works, where the artist resorts to quasi-representational forms. The work is the first of Hodgkin’s Olympics series, dedicated to each print that he made to honour the sports competition. Hodgkin got commissioned the work in 1983 in preparation for the 1984 XIV Olympic Winter Games held in Sarajevo, and participated in the cultural initiative “Art and Sports.” The “Art and Sports” programme was established in conjunction with the Olympics and the founding of the Olympics Museum in Sarajevo and saw the participation of artists of the calibre of Andy Warhol, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Henry Moore, who, like Hodgkin, contributed with their works to the creation of a world-class artistic portfolio to be displayed in the Museum to represent the values and spirit of the Olympics. Hodgkin’s love for agonistic sports is thus best emblematised in works like Sarajevo, which shed light on different facets of Hodgkin’s eclectic artistic practice.

The print was proofed and printed by Perry Tymeson at the Petersburg Studios in New York, and is held in the Olympic Museum of Lausanne as well as in the recently re-opened Olympic Museum of Sarajevo.

  • 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.