Notes

'This print is dedicated to the art dealer and publisher Bernard Jacobson. It shows the view from a balcony in India at night; the yellow forms and blue dots represent banana leaves. The idea for the print grew out of Hodgkin’s abandoned project to illustrate EM Forster’s book A Passage to India. This was one of the first prints to be on the same scale as Hodgkin’s paintings. It is also one of the most technically complicated prints he ever made. Not only are layers of printing and hand colouring interleaved, but each sheet of paper was hand-dyed using vegetable dyes to achieve its rich dark colour.'¹

1. Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hodgkin-for-bernard-jacobson-p07377

'Lithograph from four zinc plates printed in black, a blue-to-lilac blend and two shades of red-brown, with hand colouring in black gouache and pochoir hand colouring in blue and two shades of yellow wax crayon. On two sheets of cream Velin Arches mould-made paper dyed blackish purple before printing, printed and hand coloured at Sky Editions, London, published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd, London, 1979.'²

2. Source: https://howard-hodgkin.com/artwork/for-bernard-jacobson

Other impressions from the edition are in the Tate Collection, London, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.