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“I don’t use one perspective. I use very many. That is where photography is going, multiple perspectives. This is what digital permits.”
—David HockneySeven Trollies, Six and a Half Stools, Six Portraits, Eleven Paintings, and Two Curtains is a monumental example of David Hockney’s multidisciplinary practice and his extended exploration into the medium of photography. Executed in 2018 for the British artist’s solo show at PACE Gallery in New York, the present lot belongs to Hockney’s later body of work known as “photographic drawings”. Depicting a virtual version of the artist’s Los Angeles studio, this panoramic photograph shifts between abstraction and representation, while extensively exploring the spatial relations between the subject and its surroundings.
Employing innovative methods of digital production, Seven Trollies, Six and a Half Stools, Six Portraits, Eleven Paintings, and Two Curtains showcases Hockney’s extensive engagement with new technologies. By utilising a photogrammetric software to combine hundreds of single snapshots from various viewpoints, the artist created three-dimensional approximations for individual objects, which he then grouped in a notional studio space. By digitally altering the object’s colours, and manually adding highlights and shadows that contradict the principles of traditional lighting, Hockney combined his drawing and painting practices with photography, creating a photographic drawing which appears at once awkwardly hyper-realistic and subtly wrong.
Presenting multiple angels of view, Seven Trollies, Six and a Half Stools, Six Portraits, Eleven Paintings, and Two Curtains further explores Hockney’s ongoing investigation into the notion of perspective first began in the early 1980s with his composite polaroids. Introducing a complex depiction of space, the present lot attests to the artist’s efforts to transcend the constraints of conventional one-point perspective by re-inventing the portrayal of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. Infusing the photographic drawing with multiple points of view, Hockney favours reverse perspective to one-point perspective, playing with our habits of sight and encouraging the eye to freely roam across the composition.
Hockney’s examination of perspective is additionally reinforced by the subject matter of Seven Trollies, Six and a Half Stools, Six Portraits, Eleven Paintings, and Two Curtains. The photographic drawing in fact depicts three of the artist’s famous hexagonal paintings from 2017. Constructed using reverse perspective, these canvases depict a vast range of subjects often based on Hockney’s earlier work, including the terrace of his home in Hollywood hills, East Yorkshire, the Grand Canyon, and imaginary, surrealist landscapes. Hockney employed the hexagonal structure to play with perspective further. As the artist explained: “The indentations paradoxically widen the sense of space and invite all sort of fresh lines of sight. Far from cutting corners, I was adding them.” By featuring these paintings in Seven Trollies, Six and a Half Stools, Six Portraits, Eleven Paintings, and Two Curtains, the photographic drawing further embodies Hockney’s enduring desire to transcend the strictures of traditional perspective.
Provenance
LA Louver, Los Angeles
Private Collection, US
Private Collection, UKArtist 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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Seven Trollies, Six and a Half Stools, Six Portraits, Eleven Paintings, and Two Curtains
2018
Photographic drawing in colours, printed on seven sheets of wove paper, the full sheets mounted to Dibond (as issued).
overall S. 83.2 x 228 cm (32 3/4 x 89 3/4 in.)
Signed, dated and numbered 14/25 in black felt-tip pen, printed by the artist, framed.
Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 ♠
Sold for £38,100
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London Auction 21 September 2023
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David Hockney
Hockney’s Alphabet
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David Hockney
Made in April, plate 11 from The Blue Guitar (S.A.C. 209, M.C.A.T. 188)
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David Hockney
China Diary (M.C.A.T. 254)
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David Hockney
XIV Olympic Winter Games, Sarajevo (B. 135)
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David Hockney
Olympische Spiele München (Olympic Games Munich) (B. 34)
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David Hockney
Parade, Metropolitan Opera, New York (B. 103)
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David Hockney
Woman with a Sewing Machine (S.A.C. 2, M.C.A.T. 2)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
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David Hockney
Fish and Chip Shop (S.A.C. 3, M.C.A.T. 3)
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David Hockney
My Mother with Parrot (M.C.A.T. 148, S.A.C. 161)
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David Hockney
George Sand (S.A.C. 151)
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David Hockney
Gustave Flaubert (S.A.C. 152, M.C.A.T. 146)
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David Hockney
He Enquired after the Quality, plate 3 from Illustrations for 14 Poems by C.P. Cavafy (E. A. 460, S.A.C. 49, M.C.A.T. 49)
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David Hockney
The Shop Window of a Tobacco Store, plate 7 from Illustrations for 14 Poems by C.P. Cavafy (E.A. 464, S.A.C. 53, M.C.A.T. 53)
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David Hockney
Fundevogel, from Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (S.A.C. 75-80, M.C.A.T. 72-77)
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David Hockney
Rapunzel, from Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (S.A.C. 81-86, M.C.A.T. 78-83)
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David Hockney
Showing Maurice the Sugar Lift (S.A.C. 170, M.C.A.T. 155)
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David Hockney
French Shop (S.A.C. 122, M.C.A.T. 112)
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
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David Hockney
Homage to Michelangelo, from Omaggio a Michelangelo (S.A.C. 173, M.C.A.T. 162)
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David Hockney
Tulips (S.A.C. 158, M.C.A.T. 142)
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ‡♠
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David Hockney
Pretty Tulips (S.A.C. 115)
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ♠
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David Hockney
7th March 2021, More Flowers on a Table
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 ‡♠
Sold for £40,640
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David Hockney
A Bigger Book, Art Edition A
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ♠
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David Hockney
A Bigger Book, Art Edition B
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ♠
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David Hockney
A Bigger Book, Art Edition C
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David Hockney
A Bigger Book, Art Edition D
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David Hockney
My Window: No. 535, 28th June 2009
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ♠
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David Hockney
My Window: No. 281, 23rd July 2010
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David Hockney
My Window: No. 610, 23rd December 2010
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡♠
Sold for £17,780
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David Hockney
My Window: No. 778, 17th April 2011
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡♠
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David Hockney
Rain on the Studio Window
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ♠
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David Hockney
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 2 January
Estimate £80,000 - 120,000 ‡♠
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David Hockney
The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 25 February
Estimate £60,000 - 80,000 ♠
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David Hockney
Untitled No. 21, from The Yosemite Suite
Estimate £35,000 - 45,000 ‡♠
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David Hockney
Lithographic Water Made of Lines, Crayon, and Two Blue Washes (T.G. 252, M.C.A.T. 209)
Estimate £80,000 - 120,000 ‡♠
Sold for £120,650
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David Hockney
Lithographic Water Made of Lines and Crayon (T.G. 254, M.C.A.T. 211)
Estimate £70,000 - 90,000 ‡♠
Sold for £114,300
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David Hockney
Pool Made with Paper and Blue Ink for Book, from Paper Pools (T.G. 269, M.C.A.T. 234)
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ♠
Sold for £50,800
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37No Reserve
David Hockney
Composition Red & Blue
Estimate £500 - 700 •♠
Sold for £508
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David Hockney
Self-Portrait, July 1986 (M.C.A.T. 295)
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ♠
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David Hockney
Picture of a Portrait in a Silver Frame, from A Hollywood Collection (E.A. 453, S.A.C. 43, M.C.A.T. 43)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠
Sold for £10,160
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David Hockney
Self-Portrait in My Living Room, from David Hockney - 220 for 2020. Art Edition No. 101–200
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ♠
Sold for £24,130
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David Hockney
The Commissioner (T.G. 265, M.C.A.T. 220)
Estimate £1,000 - 1,500 ‡♠
Sold for £2,413
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David Hockney
Yves-Marie (S.A.C. 159, M.C.A.T. 156)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ‡♠
Sold for £5,715
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David Hockney
Ann in the Studio (G. 1191, M.C.A.T. 258)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £2,032
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David Hockney
Celia (S.A.C. 109, M.C.A.T. 106)
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
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David Hockney
Celia Adjusting Her Eyelash (G. 837)
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500 ♠
Sold for £3,048
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David Hockney
Celia in a Wicker Chair (M.C.A.T. 158)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡♠
Sold for £20,320
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David Hockney
Corbusier Chair and Rug (B. 23)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £6,985
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David Hockney
An Image of Gregory, from Moving Focus (T.G. 285, M.C.A.T. 276)
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000 ♠
Sold for £82,550
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David Hockney
Hotel Acatlán: Second Day, from Moving Focus (T.G. 283, M.C.A.T. 270)
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000 ♠
Sold for £107,950
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David Hockney
Pembroke Studio Interior, from Moving Focus (T.G. 277, M.C.A.T. 262)
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 ‡♠
Sold for £82,550
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David Hockney
Two Pembroke Studio Chairs, from Moving Focus (T.G. 276, M.C.A.T. 264)
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠
Sold for £20,320
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David Hockney
Inside It Opens Up As Well
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000 ‡♠
Sold for £63,500
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David Hockney
Sparer Chairs
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 ♠
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David Hockney
Seven Trollies, Six and a Half Stools, Six Portraits, Eleven Paintings, and Two Curtains
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 ♠
Sold for £38,100
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David Hockney
Above and Beyond, from Some More New Prints (G. 1625, M.C.A.T. 339)
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡♠
Sold for £16,510
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David Hockney
Untitled for Joel Wachs (G. 1584)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡♠
Sold for £8,890
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David Hockney
David Hockney: Some Very New Paintings (B. 198)
Estimate £700 - 900 ♠
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David Hockney
Art Car David Hockney BMW 850 CSi, 1995
Estimate £500 - 700 •♠
Sold for £1,397
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