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Frank Hodgkinson

Deya de Mallorca, 1960

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PVA hessian and sand on canvas

162.00 x 97.00

initialed and dated

Provenance: Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, 1962

Literature & references: Barry Pearce, Morris West and Lou Klepac, Frank Hodgkinson, The Beagle Press, 1994, pl 42; Robert Hughes, The Art of Australia, Penguin 1970, p 173-4: ‘In 1959 he settled in Deya, in Majorca. His work there (1959-61) cannot be considered without its Spanish prototypes. It is intimately related to four Madrid painters — Canogar, Vela, Suarez, and Viola — and not far distant from Tapies. No informal elements appeared in Hodgkinson’s new work: his aim, shared by the Madrid painters, was the containment of an obsessive image, a unique and dominant form which, directly projected, left no room for dispersion. It is wrong to suppose that Hodgkinson’s dead, baked and scraped textures, his piled-up layers of paint, wax and hessian, are merely ornamental or that they are passively meant to be Belle matiere. They dynamically extend the painting; contained in space (for Hodgkinson’s space, unlike Olsen’s, is closed and does not continue outside the frame, and his forms have a totemic stillness) they force the image backwards through time: their function is direct, not metaphorical. Layer after layer of substance is built up, cut back, riven, and cratered to expose the strata of this growth, and traversed by tremulous black graphs. No trace of his colour’s earlier charm remains: dark reds and browns, ochres and burnt yellows are contained between the lugubrious incursions of black and white, and (as with Tapies) there is no way of separating colour and material. Hodgkinson is not an illusionist: so close is their relationship between gesture, material, and colour that his paintings are self-sufficient images.’

Note: Acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.

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Frank Hodgkinson

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Frank Hodgkinson

1958

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(Study for Time of the Last Cicada II)

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1964 - 1965

mixed media on board, triptych, 130.00 x 300.00

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1963

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c. 1967

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Frank Hodgkinson

1960

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1962

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1966

mixed media on board, 61.00 x 45.00

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Frank Hodgkinson

1958

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1956

oil on board, 66.00 x 89.00

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Long Ago Last Summer

Frank Hodgkinson

1963

oil and sand on board, 183.00 x 122.00

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Frank Hodgkinson

1960

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Frank Hodgkinson

1958

oil on board, 58.00 x 89.00

Moor

Frank Hodgkinson

1959

watercolour and pencil on paper, 39.00 x 44.00

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Time of the Critical Grasshopper

Frank Hodgkinson

1966

mixed media on board, 61.00 x 45.00

Spring - Italy

Frank Hodgkinson

c. 1960

oil on board, 46.50 x 38.50

Warm Abstract

Frank Hodgkinson

1956

oil on board, 87.00 x 55.00

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Frank Hodgkinson

1957

acrylic on board, 56.00 x 76.00

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Abstraction I

Frank Hodgkinson

1958

ink and gouache on paper, 24.50 x 18.00

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Sun in Blue

Frank Hodgkinson

1967

oil on canvas, 130.00 x 130.00

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Industrial Landscape

Frank Hodgkinson

1957

oil on board, 183.00 x 92.00

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