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Girl On A Sofa - Signed Print by Howard Hodgkin 1968 - MyArtBroker

Girl On A Sofa
Signed Print

Howard Hodgkin

£700-£1,050Value Indicator

$1,400-$2,100 Value Indicator

$1,250-$1,900 Value Indicator

¥6,500-¥9,500 Value Indicator

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$850-$1,300 Value Indicator

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 75

Year: 1968

Size: H 52cm x W 65cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Howard Hodgkin's Girl On A Sofa (signed) is estimated to be worth between £700 and £1,050. This lithograph print, created in 1968, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold twice, with an average selling price of £875. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 12 times at auction since its initial sale in February 2002. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £550 in September 2024 to £1,701 in November 2020. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £946. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
July 2024Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
November 2020Rago United States
September 2020Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood United Kingdom
November 2017Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
May 2016Swann Galleries United States
June 2015Phillips London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Girl On A Sofa, together with its sister Girl At Night and the other prints in the portfolio, was made when Hodgkin was still a teacher at Bath Academy of Art, his alma mater, and therefore represents one of the earliest prints in Hodgkin’s oeuvre.

The print presents an image of a girl – although Hodgkin’s amorphous representation makes it hard to distinguish any physiological features – depicted through a half red and half yellow circle and a black brushstroke that evokes movement. The body of the girl is instead represented through the use of a lighter colour, demarcated against a very bright orange background and a stripped, horizontal navy and white bottom.

As one of Hodgkin’s earliest prints, this work betrays some of the germinal stylistic features of his practice – a far cry from the explosive, dynamic and energetic language of his more well-known works. Here, the colours are contained in clearly delineated shapes, making this print more similar to Pablo Picasso’s cubist language, or even Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract paintings, than to the John Hoyland style to which Hodgkin is more usually compared. Beyond style, the subject matter of the print, confined in an interior space, further brings this image closer to Picasso’s famous depictions of women reclining in a chair, looking out of the window.