Discord Merely Magnifies 1977 HS
David Hockney
Limited Edition Print : Etching in 3 Colours: Green Red and Blue
Size : 18.11x21.26 in | 46x54 cm
Edition : From the Edition of 200
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🔥1977 Framed Limited Edition Hand Signed Etching - Blue Chip - Inquire $$$$$$$
Year1977
Hand SignedLower Right in Pencil and on Verso
Condition Excellent
Framed with PlexiglassBlack Frame w/ White Mat
Purchased fromAuction House 2023
Story / Additional InfoTitle: Discord Merely magnifies. Medium: Original etching in 3 colours, green red and blue, 1976/7, made from 2 copper plates, on Inveresk mould made paper. Size: Paper 46 x 53 cms/ plate 34.5 x 42.5 cms. Published by: Petersburg Press, 1977 Note: This work is plate number 7 from the Blue Guitar Portfolio which consisted of 20 etchings. The frontispiece to the portfolio clearly enunciates Hockney’s dual inspirations for his ‘Blue Guitar’ suite: ‘Etchings by David Hockney who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso’. Hockney discovered Wallace Stevens’s 1936 poem ‘The Man with the Blue Guitar’ in the Summer of 1976 while holidaying in Fire Island, NY, with the curator Henry Geldzahler and writer Christopher Isherwood. Published by: Petersburg Press Proofed by: Maurice Payne and printed from steel faced plates by Jennifer Melby in New York. Reference: Tokyo Catalogue Raisonee 184 Scottish Arts Council: SCAC 205
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David Hockney - United Kingdom
Art Brokerage: David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. He is perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes. The artist's oeuvre ranges from collaged photography and opera posters, to Cubist-inspired abstractions and plein-air paintings of the English countryside. Often returning to a certain motif again and again, he probes the manifold ways one can see an image or a space. Hockney's exploration of photography's effect on painting and everyday life is evinced in his hallmark work A Bigger Splash (1967). "In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time," he has explained. Born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, United Kingdom, Hockney attended the Royal College of Art in London alongside R.B. Kitaj. At school, he studied under both Francis Bacon and Peter Blake, but also credits Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse for influencing his distinctive and varied style. In 1963, the artist traveled to Southern California for the first time and fell in love with the bright sunshine and easygoing lifestyle. Since then, he has alternated living and working between Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and Los Angeles, CA. In 2017, the artist was the subject of a comprehensive retrospective which opened to critical acclaim at the Tate Gallery in London. Hockney's works are presently held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Listings wanted.