Last Hodgkin painting in new exhibition

Sir Howard Hodgkin’s last major painting – a large and “extraordinary” selfportrait – is going on display for the first time at the National Portrait Gallery.

The celebrated British painter died earlier this month at the age of 84, as the gallery was preparing for the first exhibition of his portraits.

He painted Portrait of the Artist Listening to Music, completing the “deeply personal” work just before his death, for the new exhibition.

Curators said the oil-on-wood painting memorialises the “act of remembering” in paint.

Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends runs from March 23 to June 18 at the National Portrait Gallery, London.