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Gold (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: 13.5 x 10.2 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’. Hockney wanted to mimick the shining texture of gold, drawing rays around the ingots and writing “GOLD” in loose, outlined letters. He states: “I show the straw as falling down but leave in signs that make the gold look shiny. Is that obvious? I was never sure, when I was doing them, I didn’t want to make them too obvious; but on the other hand, I didn’t want to make them too obscure on the visual side.”

Gold (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) 1969
Etching on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked “DH” and “PP”
Plate 13.5 x 10.2 in / 34.3 x 26 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

$1,100.00

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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