David Hockney (b. 1937)

This drawing was almost certainly made in Los Angeles when Hockney was working on his series of lithographs A Hollywood Collection with Ken Tyler at the Gemini Press. It relates closely to one of the plates in the series (cf. S.A.C. 41), for which it is probably a preliminary drawing, and has been executed on a proof impression of one of the lithographic plates depicting an elaborate moulded frame (cf. S.A.C. 43).

Tyler had approached Hockney in 1965 with the idea of creating a series of lithographs with a Los Angeles theme and Hockney responded by creating 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).