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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.
