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Pleading for the child (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) by David Hockney

Petersburg Press

Etching and Aquatint

1969

Edition Size: Unique publisher’s copy aside from the edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios

Image Size: 10.5 x 10.0 inches

Sheet Size: 24.75 x 17.5 inches

Unsigned

Condition: Excellent

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This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the famous story ‘Rumpelstilzchen’. Rumpelstilzchen is an invented composition, based on Hockney’s 1961 etching of the character. The artist also sketched numerous reference drawings. Hockney wanted to convey his grotesque appearance without making him so ugly as to deny the ultimate mercy that Rumpelstiltskin offers at the end of the story when he returns the baby of the miller’s daughter’s.

Pleading for the child (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) 1969
Etching on W S Hodgkinson paper
Plate 10.5 x 10.0 in / 26.7 x 25.5 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

Upper left corner with small crease. Waviness as published.

$1,200.00

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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