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  • Provenance

    Gift of the artist to Cavan O'Brien
    Private Collection (gift of Cavan O'Brien)
    David Duggleby Auctioneers, Scarborough, The Spring Picture Sale, 16 March 2015, lot 293
    Private Collection, UK
    Bonhams, New York, Photographs, 4 October 2021, lot 35
    Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

  • Catalogue Essay

    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.

  • 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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Bridlington

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.

Estimate
£2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for £2,520

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David Hockney

London Auction 13 September 2022