Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin CH CBE (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker.

[2][3] During the Second World War, Eliot Hodgkin was an RAF officer, rising to Wing Commander, and was assistant to Sefton Delmer in running his black propaganda campaign against Nazi Germany.

[6] During the Second World War, Hodgkin was evacuated with his mother and sister to the US, where they lived on Long Island, New York.

[9][10] Memoirs (1949), one of Hodgkin's earliest recorded paintings, shows the artist, then aged 17, listening to a female figure reclining on a sofa.

Painted with angular forms and black outlines, the work precedes Hodgkin's distinct abstract style.

[2] Hodgkin was invited to design a mural for the front of Charles Correa's 1992 headquarters for the British Council in India.

This piece was given to the Yale Centre of British Art in June 2006 by its Israeli family owners in order to complement the museum's already-impressive collection of Hodgkins.

[2] In 1997 the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Hodgkin its annual Shakespeare Prize in recognition of his life's work.

[30][31] Tributes to him were made by several figures in British art, including Tate director Nicholas Serota.