Palms

Hodgkin claimed to have been inspired by the travel posters he had seen in the Paris Metro during the 1950s and 1960s, and by the coloured advertisements and commercial posters of Cassandre. For the artist, these posters had become the symbols of a certain postwar glamour and liberating spirit which he sought to evoke in his prints. Hodgkin referred to these images as “soothing, straightforward, uplifting and raising the spirits.” In particular, Street Palm held a special significance for the artist. The print was inspired by an oil painting called In Tangier, which attests to the porous exchange between painting and print fundamental to Hodgkin’s malleable technique. In Tangier, and by extension Street Palm, attempted to recreate a memory of the artist, who had gleaned upon the view of palm trees from a hotel in the Moroccan city. Once again, personal memories and recollections form the core of Hodgkin’s art, described by John McEwen as “the grit of some experience pearled by reflection. They (the paintings) begin where words fail, evocations of mood and sensation more than visual records.”

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