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Provenance: Eric F. Meneyo, Boston.
Saatchi Collection, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 5 December 1991, lot 53.
Israel Phoenix Assurance Company Collection, Tel Aviv (acquired at the above sale).
Their sale, Sotheby's London, 5 February 2004, lot 29.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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Exhibited: Aachen, Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, 13 Britische Künstler, Eine Ausstellung über Malerei, 1981-1982, no. 19, p. 16. This exhibition later travelled to Mannheim, Kunstverein Mannheim and Brunswick, Kunstverein Braunschweig.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., Howard Hodgkin Recent Paintings, 1982, no. 13.
Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Howard Hodgkin, Small Paintings: 1975-1989, 1990-1991, no. 7. This exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions, no. 8; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, no. 8 and Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College.
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, British Figurative Painting, 1992-1993, p. 46.
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Literature: R. Armstrong, 'Howard Hodgkin', in Artforum, vol. 21, February 1983, p. 71.
Howard Hodgkin: Forty Paintings, 1973-1984, exh. cat., London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1984, p. 11.
E. Gibson, 'The Hodgkin Paradox', in Studio International, vol. 198, March 1985, p. 23-25 (illustrated in colour, p. 25).
A. Hicks, New British Art in the Saatchi Collection, London 1989, no. 33, p. 47 (illustrated in colour, p. 51).
M. Price, Howard Hodgkin Paintings Catalogue, London 1995, no. 161 (illustrated, p. 174).
M. Price, Howard Hodgkin Paintings: The Complete Catalogue Raisonné, London 2006, no. 161 (illustrated in colour, p. 177).
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Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932)
After Dinner at Smith Square
oil on board and artist's frame
30 7/8 x 40 7/8in. (78.5 x 104cm.)
Painted in 1980-1981
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