Live Auction 12224Modern British & Irish Art Day Sale
David Hockney, O.M., C.H., R.A. (b. 1937)
Lot 197 50 YEARS OF CONNOISSEURSHIP: PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

David Hockney, O.M., C.H., R.A. (b. 1937)

Bedford Studio Sketch No. 10

Closed21 June 2016

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GBP 17,500

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David Hockney, O.M., C.H., R.A. (b. 1937)
Bedford Studio Sketch No. 10
signed with initials and dated 'D.H. 78' (lower right)
ink
11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.5 cm.)

Purchased from Knoedler Gallery, London, November 1980, and by descent.

Specialist note

The title of the present work refers to the graphic studio belonging to Hockney's old friend Ken Tyler who he visited when he went to New York in 1978. Hockney did a number of sketches of Gregory Evans, his assistant and lover at the time, in Tyler's swimming pool, which he subsequently worked into pressed colour paper pulp pictures.