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DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

Lot 24
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Lot 24 | DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

California

acrylic on canvas

66 1⁄8 x 78 ¼in. (168 x 198.8cm.)

Painted in 1965





Provenance

Kasmin Ltd., London.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1968.



Literature

David Hockney: Paintings, prints and drawings 1960-70, exh. cat., London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1970, p. 50, no. 65.3.

David Hockney, exh. cat., Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, 1970, p. 18 (titled 'California 1966').

David Hockney: Schilderijen, grafiek en tekeningen 1960-1970, exh. cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, 1970, p. 50, no. 65.3.

David Hockney, Zeichnungen, Grafik, Gemälde, exh. cat., Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1971, p. 5.

David Hockney, exh. cat., Lübeck, Overbeck Gesellschaft Lübeck, 1971, unpaged.

N. Stangos (ed.), David Hockney by David Hockney, London 1976, pp. 100 and 300, no. 122 (illustrated, p. 115).

N. Stangos (ed.), Pictures by David Hockney, London 1988 (illustrated, p. 53).

P. Webb, Portrait of David Hockney, New York 1988, pp. 71 and 81.

A. C. Papadakis (ed.), David Hockney: An Art & Design Profile, New York 1988, p. 56.

P. Melia (ed.), David Hockney, Manchester 1995, pp. vii, 57-59 and 67, pl. 6 (illustrated in colour, p. 64).

C. Whiting, Pop L.A. Art and the City in the 1960s, Berkeley 2006, pp. 126, 130 and 241, no. 14 (illustrated in colour on the front cover and p. 92).

David Hockney 1960-1968: A Marriage of Styles, exh. cat., Nottingham, Nottingham Contemporary, 2009-2010, (illustrated in colour with incorrect dimensions, p. 17).

C. S. Sykes, Hockney: The Biography, Volume I, 1937-1975, London 2011, p. 158.

P. Melia and U. Luckhardt, David Hockney, London 2011, pp. 58-59, 74 and 76, pl. 23 (detail illustrated in colour, p. 54; illustrated in colour with incorrect dimensions, p. 77).

D. Hockney and H. W. Holzwarth (eds.), David Hockney - A Bigger Book, Cologne 2016 (illustrated in colour with incorrect dimensions, pp. 64-65).

C. Stephens and A. Wilson (eds.), David Hockney, exh. cat., London, Tate Britain, 2017, p. 226.

David Hockney, exh. cat, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, 2017, p. 64.

J. J. Kim, Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood, Berkeley 2023, pp. 51-53, fig. 19 (illustrated in colour, p. 51).



Exhibited

Valdagno, European Community Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Marzotto Prize, Metropolitan scene: images and objects, 1966-1967, p. 47, no. 52. This exhibition later travelled to Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Tate Gallery and Paris, Musée Galliera.

Hamburg, Kunstverein und Kunsthaus Hamburg, Internationaler Realismus heute. Als guter Realist muß ich alles erfinden, 1978-1979, pp. 131-132, no. 49 (titled 'California 1966', illustrated in colour, p. 135).

London, Lightroom, David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away), 2023 (exhibited digitally).
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