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The Hospital Room was Choked With Flowers, Everybody Likes Flowers, Surplus Flowers, the Room was Filling up with Flowers from The Way We Live Now accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist and Susan Sontag; numbered 155/200 lift-ground etching 28 x 62.5cm

Footnote: Published in 1990, the present lots are two of several lift-ground etchings created by Hodgkin to accompany Susan Sontag’s short story The Way We Live Now. Originally serialised in the New Yorker in 1986, The Way We Live Now, titled after Antony Trollope’s 1875 satirical novel of the same name, chronicles the lives of a group of New Yorkers during the beginning of the AIDS crisis and is narrated through a series of fragments and whispered conversations. Other titles created by Hodgkin as accompaniment to the novel include Fear Gives Everything Its Hue, its High, But He Did Stop Smoking, He Didn’t Miss Cigarettes at All, and As You’d Been Wont-Wantonly, Wantonly, Eros Past.

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