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From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of ‘The boy who left home to learn fear’. Hockney chose this story for its obscurity: It was the only story from the Brothers Grimm that he had never read. To illustrate this story, the artist drew from Goya’s aquatints, with their dramatic lighting, and from the bucolic landscapes he observed along Germany’s Rhine river.
Perhaps the most desirable of the Grimms etching is Home, with an armchair framed by curtained French windows. “This etching (18) was actually done from a drawing I’d done of a house in Ireland, Sheridan Dufferin’s house in Ireland, in the Library.”
Home (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) 1969
Etching on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked “DH” and “PP”
Plate 17.5 x 12.6 in / 44.5 x 32 cm
Paper 24.75 x 17.5 in / 62.87 x 44.45 cm
Unique publisher’s copy aside from the edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios
