Howard Hodgkin’s Indian Art Now On Display
Most artists collect art, objects which can give them models or inspiration for their work, reproductions or even paintings of their heroes or rivals. Howard Hodgkin must be unique, however, in being a genuine connoisseur of a relatively recherché area of art, Indian painting of the classic Mughal period. His collection, now on display at the Ashmolean in Oxford, is not only the product of an artist’s eye, and a very considerable one at that, but also one who has collected at an ever more knowledgeable and refined level.
