XIV Olympic Winter Games Sarajevo Poster, 1983

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Welcome. XIV Olympic Winter Games, Sarajevo is a vintage poster realized by the artist Howard Hodgkin, in occasion of the … Read more Welcome. XIV Olympic Winter Games, Sarajevo is a vintage poster realized by the artist Howard Hodgkin, in occasion of the XIV Winter Olympics games in Sarajevo, in 1984. Very good conditions. Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) was amongst the last great luminaries of a tradition of twentieth-century British abstraction. Hodgkin was a more singular presence in the British art world, not least because his own contemporaries and friends included the British Pop artists: Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Peter Blake, and others. Hodgkin was thus a curious liminal figure, celebrated for an emotionally invested abstraction at a time when such an approach had largely been consigned to recent art history. At their best, Hodgkin's bold canvases and panel-based paintings occupy a thrilling intersection between pure arrangement of color and texture and subtly evocative figuration. See less