The Way We Live Now

published 1991

Howard Hodgkin

Artist, British, 1932 - 2017

Susan Sontag

Author, American, 1933 - 2004

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 6 lift-ground color aquatints (including front and back endpapers), hand-colored with tempera on cream laid Fabriano Ingres Avorio paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert and Brenda Edelson

  • Dimensions

    page size: 28.6 x 21.2 cm (11 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 30.2 x 22.1 x 2.4 cm (11 7/8 x 8 11/16 x 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.97.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Heenk 2003, Vol. p., no. 216, State (under "Book illustrations")

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert and Brenda Edelson, Baltimore, MD; gift to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

2003

  • Heenk, Liesbeth. Howard Hodgkin Prints, a Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003.

Inscriptions

on page after full title-page, center in graphite: Susan Sontag / Howard Hodgkin

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