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VISIONS OFMUGHAL INDIACONTENTSIntroduction 3Schools of Mughal Painting 6MughalDeccaniPahariRajasthaniThe Hodgkin collection 11Howard Hodgkin 13Dr Andrew Topsfield 14Supporters 15Catalogue, Tickets & Events 16Eastern Art at the Ashmolean 17The Ashmolean Museum 20Contact Details 21www.ashmolean.org
VISIONS OFMUGHAL INDIAINTRODUCTIONDr Andrew Topsfield“These pictures have been chosen because I thoughtthey were beautiful, because they touched my emotions,and not for any scholarly purposes. It is the collection ofan artist. I hope you enjoy looking at it.”Howard Hodgkin Detail of Elephantand riderMughal, c.1640The artist Howard Hodgkin has been a devoted collector of Indianpaintings since his schooldays in the late 1940s. Progressivelyrefined over the years, his collection has grown slowly but steadily,and has long been considered one of the finest of its kind in theworld. It is above all a personal collection, formed by an artist’seye.The Hodgkin collection comprises most of the main Indian courtstyles that flourished during the Mughal period (c.1560–1858):the refined naturalistic works of the imperial Mughal court; thepoetic and subtly coloured paintings of the Deccani Sultanates;the boldly drawn and vibrantly coloured Rajput styles of thePunjab Hills and Rajasthan. They are exhibited here within thesebroad regional groupings. Yet there are also recurrent themesin Hodgkin’s collecting which run throughout the exhibition:his keen interest in drawings as well as fully coloured works; hispredilection for unusually large Indian pictures; and, not least,his love of elephant subjects, from the serene imperial elephantportraits by Mughal artists, to the powerful action studies by thecourt painters of Kota in Rajasthan.3www.ashmolean.org
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