Live Auction 12157Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Sale
David Hockney (b. 1937)
Lot 247 Property from the Collection of Ruth and Jerome Siegel

David Hockney (b. 1937)

Bora Bora

Closed16 November 2016

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USD 211,500

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David Hockney (b. 1937)
Bora Bora
signed with the artist's initials, inscribed and dated 'not very good drawing from Bora Bora DH. 1972' (lower right)
colored pencil and graphite on paper
14 x 16 ¾ in. (35.6 x 42.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1972.

Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
Private collection, St. Louis

Specialist note

"Is it possible to do anything new in the landscape genre? Most of the art world thinks it's not worth doing anymore... It is the position I now find myself in, realizing that two hundred years ago Constable would have thought the optical projection of nature was something to aim for. I now know it is not. So stand in the landscape you love, try and depict your feelings of space, and forget photographic vision, which is distancing us too much from the physical world"
(David Hockney as quoted in: The East Yorkshire Landscape, exh. cat, LA Louver, 2007, n.p.).