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The Road To Rio
Signed Print

Howard Hodgkin

£1,250-£1,900Value Indicator

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-6% AAGR

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 350

Year: 2016

Size: H 76cm x W 59cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Howard Hodgkin's The Road To Rio (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,250 and £1,900. This screenprint, created in 2016, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale in December 2017. The average annual growth rate is 4%. This artwork has an auction history of 18 total sales. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £800, across 1 total sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £800 in June 2024 to £2,600 in December 2022. The average annual growth rate for this artwork is -6%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 350.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
June 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
December 2023Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom
December 2023Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom
October 2023Chiswick Auctions United Kingdom
June 2023Phillips London United Kingdom
May 2023Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom
March 2023Sotheby's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

The Road To Rio, like Welcome, Swimming and Ice, was the last work that Hodgkin produced on the occasion of the Olympics. Produced in 2016, just a year prior to the artist’s death, this works commemorates the participation of Team GB in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose green, blue and yellow flag the work recalls. Like his previous works, this print was commissioned by the British Olympics Association, which, since 1912, has been funding the creation of posters for each Olympic Game in which Team GB participated. Hodgkin first created the work as a painting, and subsequently proceeded to reproduce it on paper, brilliantly transposing the energy and dynamism of his painterly brushstrokes through print. In the words of Counter Editions, who published the print: “Bold and euphoric, The Road To Rio captures the energy and spirit of Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Jungle-green, sand-yellow, and the blue of the Brazilian sky and sea are used in an exhilarating display of Hodgkin’s painterly genius. The assertive washes of colour achieve maximum expression with limited means: Hodgkin’s painterly restraint has increased with age. This meticulously crafted screen-print is built up from twenty-two separate layers of colour. The process creates both the thinnest translucent marks and the thickest textural strokes characteristic of Hodgkin’s work.”

The last of a beloved series of prints, the rich colourfulness and the expressionist prowess of Hodgkin’s strokes made The Road to Rio the perfect work to embody the determination and resilience of Team GB throughout the Games.

  • 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.