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. Throughout the series Hockney inserted motifs in homage to Picasso such as the still life on the table in the foreground of this sheet, which is inspired by a Picasso painting.