Howard Hodgkin: Paintings That Shout
Jenny Uglow writes: ‘Absent Friends,†the title of the current exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, is doubly poignant: Hodgkin died on March 9, two weeks before it opened. He had been thrilled that a show would focus on his portraits, always an important strand in his work: “At last! At last!†he said when he was told of the NPG’s plans. The exhibition’s curator, Paul Moorhouse, heard the news of Hodgkin’s death a half hour before his team was due to start hanging the paintings.’ Pictured is the Hodgkin work “DH in Hollywood, 1980-1984.”
