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What does this picture mean? The title is the only clue Hodgkin gives us as to what inspired him. Instead he wants us to weave our own stories. Here the broad tonal range, from glowing orange to near black, perhaps suggests the mystery associated with the half light.
Silence looked completely different when it was first exhibited, in 1997. Hodgkin will work on a picture for years, building up layers of paint, thinking, criticising and radically reworking it. With this painting, unusually, Hodgkin exhibited it before its final reworking.
Title
Silence
Date
1997 & 2004
Medium
oil on wood
Accession number
BATVG : P : 2008.2
Work type
Painting