LA Visitors: Seven Page Portfolio 1990 HS - California

Year1990

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Mint 

Not FramedIn Original Portfolio 

Purchased fromDealer 2022 

Story / Additional InfoTitle: 112 L A Visitors (s.9376) Medium: A Seven page portfolio, 1990-1991. Colour laser print collage. Printed on Parsons linen laser paper mounted to Arches paper Each sheet numbered and with the page number (1/7 - 7/7) signed and dated in pencil lower right on each colophon page/numbered lower left Presented in original red and green cloth-covered portfolio with printed title page inset, glassine interleafing with printed names Size: Paper size: 22 3/8 x 30 1/8in (56.7 x 76.5cm) Note: The front of the portfolio reads as follows: “The Visitors were just that. No-one dressed up for these pictures. They were simply asked to stand in natural light in front of a painting in my studio. Most of the portraits were made at the same time of day recording the visitors and work people over a period of a few months ion 1990 - 1991” Literature: Tokyo Catalogue 112 Published by: Nishimura Gallery, Japan 

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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.