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DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
Lot 1 IMPORTANT DAVID HOCKNEY PRINTS FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION

DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

A Hollywood Collection

Closed28 October 2023

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DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
A Hollywood Collection
the complete set of six lithographs in colors, on Rives BFK paper, 1965, each signed and dated in pencil, numbered 25⁄85 (there were also seventeen artist's proof sets), published by Editions Alecto, London, printed by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their inkstamps on the reverse, lacking the title page and table of contents, framed
Each Sheet: 30 1⁄8 x 22 in. (765 x 559 mm.)
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Specialist note

Ken Tyler, who had recently opened Gemini, his print workshop on Melrose Avenue, approached Hockney in 1965 with the idea of creating a series of lithographs with a Los Angeles theme. Hockney's response was to create a ready-made art collection, 'pre-packaged for a Hollywood starlet' (Christopher Simon Sykes, David Hockney: The Biography, Century, London, 2011, p. 163).
'It's a kind of joke thing, a kind of home-made art collection with bits of everything in it, a nude, an abstract, a landscape and so on. I was working with a printer in Hollywood whose workshop was behind a framer's. He had all these marvellous frames in the window. I got interested in this trompe l'oeil thing - a picture of a thing with something else within something else' (artist's statement to LONDON LIFE, quoted in: David Hockney - Paintings, Prints and Drawings 1960-1970, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1970, p. 83).