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Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair (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: 10.2 x 9.6 inches

Sheet Size: 17.75 x 16 inches

Unsigned

Condition: Good

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From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel, which he chose for its popularity. When illustrating the prince beseeching Rapunzel at the foot of her tower, Hockney appropriated a hunter on horseback from Paolo Uccello’s epic 15th century landscape painting Hunt in the Forest. Hockney illustrates this scene with incredible textural detail: layers of aquatint defining the soft forest floor, delicate hatching on the horse’s haunch, the tower’s tight crosshatching, and of course the lyrical gesture of Rapunzel’s hair which cascades from the upper right corner.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) 1969
Etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked “DH” and “PP”
Plate 10.2 x 9.6 in / 25.8 x 24.3 cm
Paper 17.75 x 16 in / 45.09 x 40.64 cm
Unique publisher’s copy aside from the edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios

Small discoloration upper right on the sheet, soft line in the upper sheet

$2,800.00

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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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