Old Books, 2006, by Howard Hodgkin at the Yale Center for British Art.
#8. Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007
Yale Center for British Art
Hodgkin is everybody's favorite voluptuary. In the turbulent confines of his pictures, he builds upon the working idea of Matisse, that color can operate in a painting not just as sensation, but as meaning and even form. Then from Vuillard and Bonnard (and from Indian painted miniatures) he takes the idea of the canvas as a bristling, enclosed world, though not so enclosed that he can't draw his brush vividly across its borders. A big show of his work can be almost too scrumptious, but this one was sized just right.