Man Reading Stendahl

Year1986

Hand SignedSigned And Dated in Pencil , With Chop Mark, Lower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Other FrameWhite Box Frame 

Story / Additional InfoDavid Hockney (Born 1937). Title: Man reading Stendahl, July 1986. (s.9293) Medium: Home Made print, 1986, printed on 2 sheets of 100% rag arches. Text 120g laid paper, (watermarked) with an office copy machine, Signed and dated in pencil , with chop mark, lower right. Note: Hockney used technology to explore mark-making and picture-making in a variety of new ways, and his experiments with Xerox printing were just the start. Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer, best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme. References: Tokyo Catalogue “David Hockney prints 1954 - 1995” number 302 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

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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.