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It Picks its Way, from: The Blue Guitar, 1976 by David Hockney

Gilden's Art Gallery (IFPDA)

Etching and Aquatint

1976

Edition Size: 200

Sheet Size: 42.5 x 34.5 cm

Reference: Scottish Arts Council 202

Signed

Condition: Excellent

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This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “David Hockney” at the lower right margin.

It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 200, at the lower left margin. There were also 35 artist’s proofs hand signed and numbered with Roman numerals aside from the standard edition of 200.

This composition is the 4th from the series of 20 for “The Blue Guitar”.

This work was printed by Maurice Payne of the Petersburg Press, London and was published by Petersburg Press, London in 1977.
The title is stamped in ink at the centre of the lower margin, verso.

Other impressions of this subject are held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and The National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Literature:
1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 – 1995. Tokyo: Museum of
Contemporary Art.

Reference: M.C.A.T. 181

2. David Hockney Prints 1954-77, Petersburg Press for the Midland Art Group and the Scottish Arts Council, 1979

Reference: Scottish Arts Council 202

Condition: Excellent condition. Two very small areas of adhesive, verso.

$5,000.00

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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