ID 1044981
Lot 32 | DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
Gregory in the Pool (Paper Pool 4)
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘D.H. 78.’ (lower right); signed and numbered '4-F (II) David Hockney.' (on the reverse)
coloured, pressed paper pulp
33 ¼ x 50 5/8in. (84.5 x 128.5cm.)
Executed in 1978
Provenance
Tyler Graphics Ltd., New York.
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Björn Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm.
Private Collection, Stockholm.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 25 June 2004, lot 203.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
N. Stangos, David Hockney paper pools, London 1980 (detail of another variant illustrated in colour on the front and back cover; studio view of another variant illustrated in colour, p. 34; illustrated in colour, p. 35; another variant illustrated in colour, p. 37).
K. E. Tyler, Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1974-1985, Minneapolis 1987, p. 162, no. 239:DH4 (another variant illustrated in colour, p. 163).
H. W. Holzwarth (ed.), David Hockney: A Bigger Book, Cologne 2016 (another variant illustrated in colour, p. 123).
David Hockney, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne 2017, ill. 5 (another variant illustrated in colour, p. 34).
Exhibited
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, David Hockney, 1992, p. 107, no. 33 (another variant exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 66). This exhibition later travelled to Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts.
London, Offer Waterman, David Hockney, Early Drawings, 2015, pp. 114 and 126, no. 54 (another variant exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 115). This exhibition later travelled to New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery.
London, Lightroom, David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away), 2023 (another variant exhibited digitally).
London, National Portrait Gallery, David Hockney: Drawing from Life, 2020, p. 202 (another variant exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 109).
| Artist: | David Hockney (1937) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | David Hockney (1937) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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