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From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. This composition is sourced from Paolo Uccello’s St George and the Dragon (1470). Hockney drew directly on the plate from the painting reference, which was then printed, reversing the image. Hockney said: “I thought the hair coming down like that strengthens the composition. I was strengthening Uccello’s composition. It forms a triangle there, and just as a compositional device it gives the horse some strength.”
Andy Warhol would later screenprint the same Uccello scene in his ‘Details of Renaissance Paintings (Paolo Uccello, George and the Dragon, 1460)’
The older Rapunzel (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) 1969
Etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked “DH” and “PP”
Plate 8.7 x 9.7 in / 22 x 24.5 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
