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David Hockney

Bridlington

Estimate
£2,000–3,000♠︎
Sold For
£2,520
1998
An album of 28 chromogenic prints, mounted to wove paper and bound in a petty cash book, with 14 additional loose colour photocopy reproductions, on wove paper, with full margins, with accompanying typed letter to Cavan O'Brien on 1969 Marlborough Gallery letterhead, and a Duggleby auction catalogue.
album 32 x 19.5 cm (12 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
loose prints S. 28 x 21.6 cm (11 x 8 1/2 in.)
The album signed and dedicated 'To Cavan love David X' in black ball-point pen on the inside front cover, the loose reproductions sold unframed.
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The photographs were taken in July/August 1998 in the northern English seaside town of Bridlington and were a gift from David Hockney to Cavan O'Brien. O'Brien worked for Marlborough Gallery in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s where he represented Hockney and other influential artists such as Francis Bacon, Leon Kossoff and Henry Moore. O'Brien moved to Bridlington in 1996 and was joined there two years later by David Hockney who left Los Angeles to be closer to his mother and brother. Hockney's dear friend and muse Celia Birtwell, who also knew O'Brien well, reintroduced the two men.
The first photograph in the "album" (a repurposed petty cash book containing 28 c-prints), is of Hockney's own reflection in one of the windows of Cavan's home; others include casual shots of the seafront and passers-by, as well as casual portraits of Hockney's sister-in-law Anne and Cavan.

David Hockney

British | B. 1937 D. 2026

David Hockney is one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. With a career spanning over seven decades, Hockney’s practise embraced many mediums including painting, edition-making, and collage, with his more recent digital iPad drawings defining the later part of his career. From semi-abstract representations of domestic life and vibrant still-lifes, to detailed portraits of his closest friends, Hockney’s artworks are nothing short of electric, reflecting the eccentric personality of one of Britain’s greatest artists. 

Hockney’s works have been 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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