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David Hockney

Geography Book (Félicité's Only View From Abroad): Illustration for "A Simple Heart" of Gustave Flaubert (S.A.C. 164, M.C.A.T. 151)

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000
$8,255
Lot Details
Etching and aquatint in colors, on Arches paper, with full margins.
1974
I. 8 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (21.6 x 23.5 cm)
S. 14 7/8 x 16 1/2 in. (37.8 x 41.9 cm)
Signed, dated and annotated 'A.P. 1' in pencil (one of 23 artist's proofs, the edition was 100), published by Petersburg Press, London, framed.

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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