David Hockney
Hockney was born in Bradford in 1937. He was a brilliant draughtsman, the best known painter of his generation, and gained international success in his mid-20s. Hockney attended Bradford School of Art and Royal College of Art, where he was awarded a Gold Medal for Etching. Having settled in Los Angeles he held various teaching posts in America and was Slade Professor of Fine Art, Cambridge University, 1990.
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Hockney’s work is held in galleries internationally and he has had a continuous stream of one-man shows around the world. Notable works for the printed page are his illustrations for Cavafy’s Poems, 1967, and Six Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1969. He was elected RA in 1991 and was made Companion of Honour in 1997.
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Lithograph, 1969
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Edition of 400
Paper size: 53 × 76cm
£12,500 Framed
Signed original lithograph in grey on japon paper. Hockney worked on a zinc plate in crayon for this lithograph. Proof aside from the main edition of 65. Printed by Stanley Jones at the Curwen Studio. Published by Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich for the portfolio Europaeische Grafik No.7. Bears the blindstamp from the Archive of Stanley Jones.