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RSS FeedsWaddesdon Manor asks `Have you got a Hodgkin at home?`
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16 october 2018 02:47:04

 
Waddesdon Manor asks `Have you got a Hodgkin at home?`
(Artdaily.org)
 


As part of its preparations for Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered (25 May – 20 October 2019) - the first major exhibition of the artist’s work in nearly thirty years – Waddesdon Manor and members of Hodgkin’s family are keen to trace ‘lost’ works by the British painter who very much deserves to be returned to the spotlight. Before his 1987 death, Hodgkin (born 1905) was a renowned painter of still life subjects and landscapes, but he was also a fine portraitist, novelist and collector. He mainly worked in oils and egg tempera, a technique that he revived and used to create masterly depictions of everyday things; such as lemons, radishes, dead leaves and feathers, rendering them with almost uncanny accuracy. Many of his paintings can be seen as following in the Dutch and Spanish still life styles of Adriaen Coorte and Sanchez Cotan,


 
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