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David Hockney Hand Signed 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Poster by David Hockney

David Hockney Hand Signed 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Poster by David Hockney

Clifton Gallery

Offset Lithograph

1982

Edition Size: It is believed that fewer than 200 hand signed posters exist.

Sheet Size: 91.5 x 64 cm

Signed

Condition: Good

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Hand Signed 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Poster

By David Hockney

1982.

A rare, original hand-signed poster printed for the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games.

Fifteen artists who worked in California were commissioned to create artworks that were printed as posters and used to promote the Olympic Games; David Hockney painted a swimmer that has become an iconic image of the time.

This poster is hand signed which makes it exceptionally rare as it is believed that fewer than 200 hand signed posters exist.

Offset lithograph on wove paper.

91.5 x 64 cm.

Hand signed by Hockney.

Printed and published by Knapp Communications Corporation.

Catalogue Raisonne Reference: 131 Brian Baggott, Hockney Poster Art.

£19,500.00

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The Artist

David Hockney

Born in Bradford England on the 9th July 1937 David Hockney was interested in art from a very early age, and was an admirer of Fragonard, Picasso and Matisse. The fifth of six children his parents encouraged his artistic experimentation. He went to the Bradford College of Art 1953-57. To fulfil his national service, he worked in hospitals as he was a conscientious objector to war. Then in 1959 he was accepted into the Royal College of Art, Graduate school in London.

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