David Hockney - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, January 18, 2017 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 19 January 2017

  • Literature

    see Scottish Arts Council 17, 19-31
    see Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 12, 14-26
    see Editions Alecto 430, 432-444

  • Catalogue Essay

    After the two sets were pulled in 1963, the sixteen cancelled plates for A Rake's Progress were presented by Editions Alecto to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in whose collection they remain.

    Including: The Arrival; Meeting the Good People (Washington); The Gospel Singing (Good People) Madison Square Garden; The Start of the Spending Spree and the Door Opening for a Blonde; The Seven Stone Weakling; The Drinking Scene; Marries an Old Maid; The Election Campaign (with Dark Message); Viewing a Prison Scene; Death in Harlem; The Wallet Begins to Empty; Disintegration; Cast Aside; and Meeting the Other People

  • Artist Biography

    David Hockney

    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 the
    changing 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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FROM THE ARCHIVE OF EDITIONS ALECTO

121

David Hockney

A Rake's Progress: 14 plates

1963
Fourteen etchings with sugar-lift aquatint in black and red, on Crisbrook Royal Hotpress paper, with margins.
all I. 30 x 40 cm (11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
all S. approx. 49 x 61 cm (19 1/4 x 24 in.)
Unsigned impressions, from one of two sets taken from the 16 cancelled plates (the edition was 50 and 10 artist's proofs), published by Editions Alecto in association with the Royal College of Art, London, all unframed, lacking Receiving the Inheritance and Bedlam.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 ♠

Sold for £15,625

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 19 January 2017