Howard Hodgkin is internationally recognised as one of Britain's leading artists. Hodgkin was awarded the Turner Prize in 1985, a year after representing Great Britain at the Venice Biennale and solo exhibitions of his work have be en held in Europe and the USA - including major retrospectives at t he Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Tex as, the Metropolitan Museum, New York and Tate Britain, London. This book accompanies the first exhibition to focus on Hodgkin's portraits.