Our Top 5 ABSTRACT ARTWORKS

Jarid's Porch is an exceptional example of Hodgkin's profound sensitivity to the interplay of colour, gesture and ground. It belongs to the first great blossoming of the artist's printmaking practice in the 1970s, when he had begun to explore the possibilities of hand-colouring. Highly layered and technically complex, it encapsulates the tension between his desire to capture fleeting moments of emotional significance and the time-consuming process necessary to do so. In this piece the titular wraparound porch on a friend's house is expressed as a chevron of rich lemon yellow, an oasis of light in the velvety darkness of a summer's night.

This original artwork shares similarities with the screenprint "Untitled 11 (lime green)" made in a limited edition of 30 in 1991. It was produced at 2RC Edizioni d'Arte, Rome, the printmaking studios where Pasmore spent lengthy periods of time working out ideas for his prints.

Since the early 20th century, posters have been commissioned by Organising Committees of the Olympic Games to capture the excitement of these unique cultural events. Numerous major artists have contributed highly personal interpretations of the "Olympic moment". For the London Games in 2012, Hodgkin created 'Swimming', a deep, swirling mass of blue flooding across the paper. The fluidity of the brushstrokes perfectly captures the movement of water and the sensation of swimming. This print was created using twelve hand-pulled colour silkscreens. The artist went on to create two further images for the Olympics in 2014 and 2016.