You will find an image of this work in the Chronology at the official Howard Hodgkin site...
Hodgkin’s vibrant and colourful paintings often seem to lift from the canvas or create tunnels deeper into them. They are concerned with mapping and environment, and can often be interpreted as loose landscapes rupturing the picture plane.
Hodgkin also incorporated frames as integral to overall composition, implying the frame is merely a boundary and, like the view through a window, there is more than immediately meets the eye, in terms of the real landscape beyond, in terms of emotional response and the memories that become associated with that moment and situation…
In some ways, each painting becomes a tangible record of those emotional responses and memories. Then, it could be argued that they are not abstract at all, but map-like visualisations of those things within us that would otherwise remain abstract.
MORE:
Howard Hodgkin resources at The Tate website
Short Q & A with Howard Hodgkin in The Guardian
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