
Charlie Thomas
Group Head, Private Collections, Furniture & Works of Art, U.K
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Group Head, Private Collections, Furniture & Works of Art, U.K

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Provenance:
Acquired by the present owner directly from the artist.
Exhibited:
London, Sir John Soane Museum, Henry Hudson, Rake Revisited, 2 December 2011- 28 January 2012, p. 27, ill.
The present work is based on William Hogarth's series of six paintings of The Harlot's Progress from 1731, and were later engraved in 1732. This group of narrative works tell the cautionary tale of Moll Hackabout, a harlot.
Nicky purchased the present work from Henry Hudson's 2009 exhibition at the Sir John Soane Museum, which featured a group of large-scale paintings created by melting plasticine and applying it as thick impasto on board. Tim Knox, Director of the Sir John Soane Museum said, in the exhibition catalogue, "there is a pervasive sense of fear that is even more tangible in Hudson's plasticine clad canvases than in the original paintings. His work both subverts and celebrates Hogarth's originals, adding his own story to a work which has become enmeshed in our culture, part of our national consciousness. He embellishes and exaggerates and makes these images from nearly three centuries ago alive for us again, inviting us to look just as acutely at the state of our nation today".