Sir Howard Hodgkin obituary

Award-winning British artist who achieved superstar status with his vivid abstract workSir Howard Hodgkin, who has died aged 84, was literally a broad-brush artist, the width of whose lush, pigment-loaded strokes was accentuated in all but the later paintings by the smallness of the surface. Their impact was intensified by his habit of incorporating the frame, actual or suggested, as part of the picture.Like Francis Bacon, though, it pleased Hodgkin to refer to himself as a figurative painter; a