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They said, “You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are.”
The man replied, “Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.”
And they said then, “But play, you must,
A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things exactly as they are.”Wallace Stevens’ 1936 Modernist poem The Man with the Blue Guitar was inspired by Pablo Picasso’s Old Guitarist (1903-04) and explores the role of imagination in shaping reality. Taking the epochal image from Picasso’s Blue Period, Stevens transforms the blue man with a guitar, to the blue guitar – a symbol of the imagination - which appears capable of transforming objects and meaning. “Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar” despite apparent demand to play, paint or otherwise depict “things exactly as they are.”
Left: Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1903-04. Image: © Art Institute of Chicago / Bridgeman Images, Artwork: © Succession Picasso / DACS, London 2022.
Right: David Hockney, The Old Guitarist, plate 2 from The Blue Guitar, 1976-77.Forty years later, in the summer of 1976, David Hockney was holidaying in Fire Island, New York with the writer Christopher Isherwood and the curator Henry Geldzahler, who introduced Hockney to The Man with the Blue Guitar. No stranger to the compelling influence of Picasso, David Hockney was immediately taken with Stevens’ poetic interpretation of his melancholic portrait.
'When I first read The Man with the Blue Guitar, I wasn’t sure what it was about, like all poems like that, but I loved the rhythms in it and some of the imagery, just the choice of words is marvellous. Then, when I read it out loud, I loved it even more, because I got the music that it has'
—David HockneyHockney had first incorporated fragments of poetry in his 1961 painting, We Two Boys Clinging Together, which integrated two lines from a Walt Whitman poem of the same title. But Stevens’ book-length poem encouraged a much greater creative output from Hockney, who embarked upon an extensive series of twenty etchings, The Blue Guitar: Etchings by David Hockney, who was inspired by Wallace Stevens, who was inspired by Pablo Picasso.
Not literal illustrations of Stevens’ poem, Hockney’s etchings nonetheless convey similar ideas about transformations within art as well as the relation between reality and the imagination. An ardent admirer of Picasso, Hockney also used his interpretations of Stevens’ text to pay technical homage to the great Cubist master. Having worked extensively in the early 1970’s under the tutelage of Aldo Crommelynck in Paris (with whom Picasso had made prints during the final two decades of his life), Hockney learned how to emulate Picasso's etching technique and to use a single plate for multi-coloured etchings, rather than having to register separate plates for each colour, which proved essential to the genesis of his Blue Guitar prints.
Left: David Hockney, Figures with Still Life, plate 10 from The Blue Guitar, 1976-1977.
Right: David Hockney, Artist and Model, 1973-74. Artwork: © David Hockney.Individual plates are populated with a multitude of references to Picasso’s work including imagery of guitars, still lives, stage sets and distorted perspectives. Figures with Still Life recreates a Cubist scene and echoes Hockney’s earlier etched homage to Picasso, Artist and Model, 1973-74 in which he sits opposite and in visual dialogue with his venerated predecessor. But the final plate, What is this Picasso? provides the most overt reference to Picasso, including his 1937 Portrait of Dora Maar, his muse and lover. The layers of influence continue in perpetuity: Etchings by David Hockney, who was inspired by Wallace Stevens, who was inspired by Pablo Picasso, who was inspired by Dora Maar? Afterall, as Hockney says, “good artists don’t borrow, they steal”.
Left: David Hockney, What Is This Picasso?, plate 20 from The Blue Guitar, 1976-77.
Right: Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937. Image: Bridgeman Images, Artwork: © Succession Picasso / DACS, London 2022.來源
比利時魯汶Embryo畫廊（1979年）
現藏者繼承自上述來源文學
Scottish Arts Council 199-218
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 178-197Catalogue Essay
Including The Blue Guitar; The Old Guitarist; A Tune; It Picks It's Way; Franco-American Mail; Parade; Discord Merely Magnifies; The Buzzing of the Blue Guitar; In a Chiaroscuro; Figures with Still Life; Made in April; A Picture of Ourselves; The Poet; Etching is the Subject; Tick It, Tock It, Turn It True; I Say They Are; On It May Stay His Eye; A Moving Still Life; Serenade; and What Is This Picasso?
藝術家簡介
大衛．霍克尼
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.
比利時私人收藏
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《藍色吉他 (S.A.C. 199-218, M.C.A.T 178-197)》
1976-77年作
全套20組蝕刻版畫及幼點腐蝕 Inveresk模製紙本（全包邊，如出版所示）連目錄及版權頁 存於原裝棕色皮面文件夾附浮雕標題
圖像：34.5 x 42.4 公分 (13 5/8 x 16 3/4 英吋)
紙本：45.8 x 52.6 公分 (18 x 20 3/4 英吋) 8組垂直
文件夾：55.5 x 48.3 x 4 公分 (21 7/8 x 19 x 1 5/8 英吋)
款識：簽名、167/200
尚有35版羅馬數字藝術家試作版，由紐約及倫敦Petersburg Press畫廊出版，全部未裱。
估價
£30,000 - 50,000 ‡♠
成交價£52,920
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David Hockney
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大衛．霍克尼
《絲莉亞眼看 (Gemini G.E.L. 1650, M.C.A.T. 247)》
估價 £6,000 - 8,000 ♠
成交價 £16,380
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