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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

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Howard Hodgkin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: August 6
Died: 2017
Died: March 9
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Painter
Hammersmith
London
Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin
Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin
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National
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Catalogues
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