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David Hockney

Illustrations for 14 Poems by C.P. Cavafy (S.A.C. 47-59, M.C.A.T. 47-59)

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000
$5,670
Lot Details
Book of 12 etchings with aquatint, on wove paper, with full margins, with title-page, text and justification, bound (as issued) in the original purple cotton silk covers, with the accompanying signed and dated etching Portrait of Cavafy II loose (as issued), all contained in the original black cotton silk covered slipcase.
1967
slipcase 19 x 13 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. (48.3 x 34 x 3.2 cm)
Signed and numbered 137/500 in pencil on the colophon (there were also 50 artist's proofs), published by Editions Alecto, London (with their inkstamp on the reverse of the loose print).

David Hockney

British
David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most well-known and celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. He works across many mediums, including painting, collage, and more recently digitally, by creating print series on iPads. His works show semi-abstract representations of domestic life, human relationships, floral, fauna, and thechanging of seasons.

Hockney has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, among many other institutions. On the secondary market, his work has sold for more than $90 million.
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