DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

Hockney was inspired by Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man with the Blue Guitar” (1937) to create ten drawings in colored inks and crayons. He then collaborated with the printer Aldo Crommelynck to translate the drawings into a series of twenty mixed intaglio prints using a color-etching process initially developed for Picasso. Hockney plays linguistically with the title of the present sheet, "A Moving Still Life," drawing tension between motion and immobility.