DAVID HOCKNEY b.1937
born in Bradford, United Kingdom 1937 (British)
Title: Félicité Sleeping with Parrot, from: Illustration for a Simple Heart of Gustave Flaubert, 1974/78
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint in Colours on Wove Paper
Paper size: 38 x 42.5 cm. / 15 x 16.7 in.
Image size: 21.9 x 9.3 cm. / 8.6 x 22.4 in.
Additional Information: This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in green pencil by the artist “Hockney” at the lower right margin.
It is also hand signed in pencil from the edition of 100, at the left corner. There were also 23 proofs aside from the standard edition.
This work was printed by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris and was published by Petersburg Press, London in 1978.
Provenance: Leslie and Johanna Garfield Collection.
Literature:
1.(1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 – 1995. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art. Reference: M.C.A.T. 150
2. David Hockney Prints 1954-77, Petersburg Press for the Midland Art Group and the Scottish Arts Council, 1979 Reference: Scottish Arts Council 163
Condition: Very good condition. Pale time-staining at the extreme sheet edges.
Frame not included.
