DAVID HOCKNEY British, 1937-2026
What is this Picasso, from: The Blue Guitar, 1976
Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint in Colours on Inveresk Paper
Paper size: 52.8 x 46 cm. / 21x 18 in.
Image size: 42.5 34.5 cm. / 16.7 x 13.6 in.
Image size: 42.5 34.5 cm. / 16.7 x 13.6 in.
This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "David Hockney" at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 35 artist’s proofs, at the lower left margin. The standard edition was 200 numbered with Arabic numerals.
This composition is the 20th from the series of 20 for “The Blue Guitar”.
This work was printed by Maurice Payne of the Petersburg Press, London and was published by Petersburg Press, London in 1977.
The title is stamped in ink at the centre of the lower margin, verso.
Other impressions of this subject are held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and The National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Literature:
1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art.
Reference: M.C.A.T. 197
2. David Hockney Prints 1954-77, Petersburg Press for the Midland Art Group and the Scottish Arts Council, 1979
Reference: Scottish Arts Council 218
Condition: Excellent condition.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 35 artist’s proofs, at the lower left margin. The standard edition was 200 numbered with Arabic numerals.
This composition is the 20th from the series of 20 for “The Blue Guitar”.
This work was printed by Maurice Payne of the Petersburg Press, London and was published by Petersburg Press, London in 1977.
The title is stamped in ink at the centre of the lower margin, verso.
Other impressions of this subject are held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and The National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Literature:
1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art.
Reference: M.C.A.T. 197
2. David Hockney Prints 1954-77, Petersburg Press for the Midland Art Group and the Scottish Arts Council, 1979
Reference: Scottish Arts Council 218
Condition: Excellent condition.
$ 9,000.00 Unframed
