Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting

Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting presents more than 120 examples of Indian court paintings assembled by British painter and printmaker Howard Hodgkin, including works created by the Mughal, Deccan, Rajput and Pahari courts dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Underlying Hodgkin' eclectic collection-which includes portraits. palace scenes, royal hunts, illustrations to religious epics, devotional subjects, and nature studies-are several unifying themes that reflect Hodgkin's preferences for compositions that convey narrative drama, poetic allusion and emotional intensity. He also had a predilection for elephants rendered as portraits and in action.