1961
Edition Size: 50
Image Size: 49x27.5 cm
Sheet Size: 69.5x49.3 cm
Signed
Condition: Excellent
Signed and dated lower right in pencil by Hockney. Hockney based some of his early prints on literary characters and Constantine Cavafy’s poem Alexandrian King is the source of this image. Kaisarion was the son of Julius Caeser and Cleopatra.
£20,000.00
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.
