Howard Hodgkin by Eamonn McCabe

By Home & Garden Last updated Wednesday, March/20/2019

Howard Hodgkin "doesn't allow anyone to see him at work" and "turned the canvases with their painted faces to the wall"¹ when photographer Eamonn McCabe was in his studio. I find something comforting in a painter still doing this after decades of critical acclaim.

Hodgkin's answer to that tricky question, when is a painting finished, is: "...when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."²

^{References:
1. Artists and Their Studio, McCabe and McNay, p96.
2. 'I hate painting', interview with Colm Tóibín, The Guardian, 13 May 2006.}

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