David Hockney Landscape Prints
British, b. 1937
The art of David Hockney is always engaging in its pleasant ambiguities: his prints, drawings and paintings are warm but somehow aloof; filled with light yet often dark and brooding in subject; simple, frank and mundane, but also ethereal and complex. The artist’s stature in the contemporary art world is such that, in a 2011 survey of one thousand British painters and sculptors, he was named the most influential British artist of all time.
Hockney grew up in Bradford, in the northern English county of Yorkshire, studying at the Bradford School of Art from 1953 to ’57, and at the Royal College of Art in London from 1959 to 1962. Though he was educated in art at a time when abstraction dominated the field, Hockney stuck resolutely to figurative painting and drawing.
Hockney's early paintings suggest a search for a style, veering from Expressionism to a grotesquerie suggestive of James Ensor. But Hockney found himself almost the moment he arrived in Los Angeles, in 1963. The move from the gray and rainy Britain to a world of bright sunshine and sparkling water brought Hockney a sense of freedom and an artistic epiphany. He would spend most of the next five years in L.A., painting luminous pictures, such as A Bigger Splash (1967), of things that made him happy: swimming pools, manicured lawns, palm trees, stucco buildings and luxuries like shower stalls. Hockney also painted people, almost always his friends. His California portraits such as Beverly Hills Housewife (1966) are considered to be his finest work. They are at once grandly scaled, intimate and poetic.
In the 1970s, Hockney moved back to Britain and spent much of his time on photography and printmaking. He returned to painting in the 1980s, and to subjects like still lifes, seascapes and portraits. Hockney has always been fascinated by the use of technology in art — he’s credited with inventing the technique of joining Polaroid photos in a collage to form a panoramic picture — and has been using the Brush app to paint on an iPad. Because he is prolific and works in a wide range of mediums, Hockney’s art is available at many price points. His consistently striking and provocative work should have a place in any comprehensive collection of contemporary art.
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Artist: David Hockney
Red Square and the Forbidden City /// Contemporary Lithograph David Hockney Art
By David Hockney
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: David Hockney (English, 1937-)
Title: "Red Square and the Forbidden City"
Portfolio: China Diary
*Numbered, signed, and dated by Hockney in pencil lower right
Year: 1982
Medi...
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Gold Leaf
Remember That You Cannot Look At the Sun
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Located in London, GB
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Located in London, GB
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The Golden Road, Los Angeles Music Center Opera poster (Hand Signed & inscribed)
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Located in New York, NY
David Hockney
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Signed and inscribed to Chris by Hockney in ink on the front
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Gorge d’Incre, from: Some More New Prints - British Contemporary Landscape
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Located in London, GB
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Waiting at York, 180 - iPad Drawing 2010 British Technology Railway Scene
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
This original inkjet iPad drawing is hand signed in pencil by the artist "David Hockney" at the lower right margin.
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It is also hand nu...
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UK exhibition poster of Grimms' Fairy Tales (Hand signed by David Hockney)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Hand Signed), 1996
Offset Lithograph Poster
Boldly signed in ink marker on the top front
16 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches
Unframed
This signed offset lithogr...
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Gorge d'Incre, 1993
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Gorge d'Incre (from Some More New Prints), 1993
Lithograph from 11 aluminium plates and screenprint from 8 screens on Arches 88 wove paper
27 × 21 1/2 in 68.6 × 54.6 cm
Limited Edit...
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1990s David Hockney Landscape Prints
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Lithograph
Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your Hair (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Sheet from “Rapunzel” story (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Text printed letterpress and “Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your Hair” etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Etching 10.5 × 9.85 in. / 26.7 × 25 cm
Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm
Unsigned: apart from the published edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios. This is one of eleven images recently found in our archive which we have decided to make available. There is one only of each image.
Perhaps the most famous story from the Grimm Brothers, Rapunzel spins the tale of a beautiful young princess locked away by an evil sorceress. Captured in this scene is the moment a King's son came across the tower and fell in love with her sweet singing, beseeching her: 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.' Though the sorcerer banishes Rapunzel and maims the prince, they are of course ultimately reunited to live happily together. Hockney illustrates this scene with incredible texture detail: layers of aquatint defining the soft forest floor, delicate hatching on the horse's haunch, the tower's tight crosshatching, and of course the lyrical gesture of Rapunzel's hair which cascades from the upper right corner.
This print from our publisher's archives is one of thirty-nine etchings from David Hockney’s 1969 "Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm". Hockney worked on this series with Paul Cornwall-Jones at Petersburg Press over the course of a year. 400 books and 100 portfolios plus artist’s proofs were printed. The artist illustrated six stories: 'The Little Sea Hare', 'Fundevogel', 'Rapunzel', 'The Boy who left Home to learn Fear', 'Old Rinkrank' and 'Rumpelstilzchen'. According to Hockney, "They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very, very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. They cover quite a strange range of experience, from the magical to the moral." He was inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, including Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, but Hockney reimagined the stories for a modern audience.
The frontispiece for the project pictures Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, the elderly German woman who recounted fairy tales to the Grimm brothers when they were in their late twenties. In Hockney's words: “The stories weren’t written by the Brothers Grimm…they came across this woman called Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, who told 20 stories to them in this simple language, and they were so moved by them that they wrote them down word for word as she spoke.” Hockney drew the German woman in the style of Dürer, formally posed yet naturalistic against an impeccably crosshatched swath of grey.
Hockney wrote about the surreal plots contained in the Brothers Grimm tales: “…the stories really are quite mad, when you think of it, and quite strange. In modern times, it’s like the story of a couple moving into a house, and in the next door’s garden they see this lettuce growing: and the wife develops this craving for the lettuce that she just must have and climbs over to pinch it, and the old woman who lives in the house next door says well, you can have the lettuce if you give me your child, and they agree to it. And if you put it into terms like this and imagine them in their semi-detached house agreeing to it all, it seems incredible.” Hockney enhanced this unbelievable quality with his illustrations which traverse inky, dense areas of intense crosshatching and minimalist line work.
Rather than serving as direct interpretations of the plot, the images capture moments and feelings. Some portray the magic yet mundane -- Rapunzel's tiny face gazing placidly at a well-tended garden, or project danger and unease as in The Haunted Castle, with its citadel perched atop craggy rocks, dramatically lit against a dark sky. Hockney's sense of humor comes through in Cold Water About to Hit the Prince, in which a man tucked into bed stares straight at a rush of water drawn with a splash (this technique is likely Spit Bite, and the resultant bold spattered brushstroke contrasts beautifully with the rest of the carefully crosshatched image). A Wooded Landscape, with its lush textures, conveys the bucolic setting of a fairy tale and the potential danger hidden within the woods -- the viewer is left to wonder who lives on the hilltop in that diminutive cabin.
These etchings defy the conventions of beautiful fairy tale illustrations...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
The Haunted Castle (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The Haunted Castle (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm
Plate 14 ...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
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Etching
David Hockney. 220 for 2020. Art Edition A No. 1–100 ‘Spilt Ink with Tests' 2021
By David Hockney
Located in Zug, CH
David Hockney
David Hockney. 220 for 2020. Art Edition A No. 1–100 ‘Spilt Ink with Tests', 2021
11-color inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper
45.7 × 102.6 cm (18 × 40.4 in)
Signed, numbered and dated
Edition number 47
In mint condition
Unframed
Hockney made four different prints, each in an edition of 100, to accompany 400 copies of the book(s). Edition B is numbered, as here, 101-200. Edition A, C and D each have different images for each of their editions, numbered respectively, 1-100, 201-300, and 301-400. There were another 1,620 “collector edition” books numbered in Volume 1, numbered 401-2,200
From a small, picturesque farmhouse in the rich fields and meadows of the northern French region of Normandy, Hockney followed and recorded the changing seasons throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past decade, Hockney’s medium of choice has been the iPad and it was this technological instrument, he used to spontaneously depict impressions of the Norman landscape surrounding him. The two-year project entitled “220 for 2020” documents the passage of time by portraying the first spring blossoms, the smell of summer, the saturated colours of autumn, and the stark shapes of dark branches in winter time. This poetic undertaking represented a lifeline for the artist, and offered its viewers a message of hope in unprecedented times. As part of this project, Hockney included drawings from his “La Grande Cour, Rumesnil, Normadie, 26 Juli 2019”, sketchbook. These almost autobiographical accounts started in the vicinity of the artist’s Los Angeles home...
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2010s American Realist David Hockney Landscape Prints
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Archival Paper
Remember that you cannot look at the sun or death for very long, David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph with a yellow silk screen overlay on 170gsm paper
35.20 x 10.00 in (89.4 x 25.4 cm)
From a limited edition of 3,000. Comes with the publisher Certificate of Authe...
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2010s Contemporary David Hockney Landscape Prints
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220 for 2020. Art Edition D No. 301–400 ‘My Second Drawing of Beuvron-en-Auge’
By David Hockney
Located in Zug, CH
David Hockney
220 for 2020. Art Edition D No. 301–400 ‘My Second Drawing of Beuvron-en-Auge’, 2021
11-color inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper
45.7 × 102.6 cm (18 × 40.4 in)
Signed, numbered and dated
Edition number 347
In mint condition
Unframed
Hockney made four different prints, each in an edition of 100, to accompany 400 copies of the book(s). Edition D is numbered, as here, 301-400. Edition A, B and C, each have different images for each of their editions, numbered respectively, 1-100, 101-200, and 201-300. There were another 1,620 “collector edition” books numbered in Volume 1, numbered 401-2,200.
From a small, picturesque farmhouse in the rich fields and meadows of the northern French region of Normandy, Hockney followed and recorded the changing seasons throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past decade, Hockney’s medium of choice has been the iPad and it was this technological instrument, he used to spontaneously depict impressions of the Norman landscape surrounding him. The two-year project entitled “220 for 2020” documents the passage of time by portraying the first spring blossoms, the smell of summer, the saturated colours of autumn, and the stark shapes of dark branches in winter time. This poetic undertaking represented a lifeline for the artist, and offered its viewers a message of hope in unprecedented times. As part of this project, Hockney included drawings from his “La Grande Cour, Rumesnil, Normadie, 26 Juli 2019”, sketchbook. These almost autobiographical accounts started in the vicinity of the artist’s Los Angeles home...
Category
2010s American Realist David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
David Hockney. 220 for 2020. Art Edition No. 1–100 ‘Spilt Ink with Tests', 2021
By David Hockney
Located in Zug, CH
David Hockney
David Hockney. 220 for 2020. Art Edition No. 1–100 ‘Spilt Ink with Tests', 2021
11-color inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper
45.7 × ...
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2010s American Realist David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
220 for 2020. Art Edition B No. 101–200 ‘Self-Portrait in My Living Room’ 2021
By David Hockney
Located in Zug, CH
David Hockney
220 for 2020. Art Edition No. 101–200 ‘Self-Portrait in My Living Room’, 2021
11-color inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper
45.7 × 102.6 cm (18 × 40.4 in)
Signed, numbered and dated
Edition number 47 (from an edition of 100)
In mint condition
Unframed
From a small, picturesque farmhouse in the rich fields and meadows of the northern French region of Normandy, Hockney followed and recorded the changing seasons throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past decade, Hockney’s medium of choice has been the iPad and it was this technological instrument, he used to spontaneously depict impressions of the Norman landscape surrounding him. The two-year project entitled “220 for 2020” documents the passage of time by portraying the first spring blossoms, the smell of summer, the saturated colours of autumn, and the stark shapes of dark branches in winter time. This poetic undertaking represented a lifeline for the artist, and offered its viewers a message of hope in unprecedented times. As part of this project, Hockney included drawings from his “La Grande Cour, Rumesnil, Normadie, 26 Juli 2019”, sketchbook. These almost autobiographical accounts started in the vicinity of the artist’s Los Angeles home...
Category
2010s American Realist David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
220 for 2020. Art Edition D No. 301–400 ‘My Second Drawing of Beuvron-en-Auge’
By David Hockney
Located in Zug, CH
David Hockney
220 for 2020. Art Edition D No. 301–400 ‘My Second Drawing of Beuvron-en-Auge’, 2021
11-color inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper
45.7 × 102.6 cm (18 × 40.4 in)
Signed, numbered and dated
Edition of 100
In excellent condition
Unframed
Edition number might vary from what is shown in the pictures
The seller can only provide the specific edition number to buyers at the actual point of sale. Please message the seller to request this information at the point of purchase.”
About this edition:
From a small, picturesque farmhouse in the rich fields and meadows of the northern French region of Normandy, Hockney followed and recorded the changing seasons throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past decade, Hockney’s medium of choice has been the iPad and it was this technological instrument, he used to spontaneously depict impressions of the Norman landscape surrounding him. The two-year project entitled “220 for 2020” documents the passage of time by portraying the first spring blossoms, the smell of summer, the saturated colours of autumn, and the stark shapes of dark branches in winter time. This poetic undertaking represented a lifeline for the artist, and offered its viewers a message of hope in unprecedented times. As part of this project, Hockney included drawings from his “La Grande Cour, Rumesnil, Normadie, 26 Juli 2019”, sketchbook. These almost autobiographical accounts started in the vicinity of the artist’s Los Angeles home...
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2010s American Realist David Hockney Landscape Prints
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Archival Paper
My Pool and Terrace (from Eight by Eight to Celebrate the Temporary Contemporary
By David Hockney
Located in Bristol, GB
Etching and aquatint in colours on wove paper
Edition of 250 + 30 AP's
73.7 x 106 cm (29 x 41.7 in)
Condition on request
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Catherina Dorothea Viehman (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Catherina Dorothea Viehman (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Paper 1...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
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Aquatint, Etching
My Window. Art Edition (No. 501–750), iPad drawing ‘No. 610', 23rd December 2010
By David Hockney
Located in Bristol, GB
8 colour inkjet print on cotton-fibre archival paper, and book
Edition of 250 (print) Edition of 1,000 (book)
(69.2 x 54.5 cm / 27.2 x 21.5 in)
Signed, numbered and dated on the fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Inkjet
David Hockney Will Come
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
This unique and stunning collection of original drawings, screenprint proofs and posters by David Hockney comprises works made to promote a lecture Hockney gave in the Percy Building...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
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Screen
In Front of House Looking South
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
2019
Inkjet print in colors, on wove paper
34 x 43 in. (86.4 x 109.2 cm)
Edition of 35
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
2010s Pop Art David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Digital, Inkjet
Untitled No.18 from The Yosemite Suite
By David Hockney
Located in Tokyo, 13
LOT:20221111N02
iPad drawing printed on wove paper
Signed by the artist, dated, and numbered
Edition 20 of 25
Provenance: arttree gallery
Category
2010s David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Digital
Untitled No.16 from The Yosemite Suite
By David Hockney
Located in Tokyo, 13
LOT:20221111N01
iPad drawing printed on wove paper
Signed by the artist, dated, and numbered
Edition 14 of 25
Provenance: arttree gallery
Category
2010s David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Digital
Pool Made With Paper and Blue Ink for Book
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
1980
Lithograph in colors on Arches Cover paper
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 9 in.
Edition of 1000
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Framed, excellent condition
Category
1980s Pop Art David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
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A fun, whimsical, and highly decorative signed limited edition Baechler piece that works well in any setting.
Medium: Soft-ground etching and aq...
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1990s Contemporary David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen
Original California Wine Country vintage wine and travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original California Wine Country vintage poster by Earl Thollander.
On the back of the poster is a diagram of the grape-growing regions of California. The artist provides some com...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
H 36 in W 24 in D 0.05 in
Large Surrealist Photo Realist Silkscreen Lithograph Print Swan Dreams
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1953, Frederick Phillips studied Fine Art at Burslem College of Art when Arthur Berry was Head of the Fine Art (Painting) ...
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1990s Surrealist David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Previously Available Items
A Picture of a Landscape in an Elaborate Gold Frame -- Lithograph by Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
A Picture of a Landscape in an Elaborate Gold Frame, 1965
David Hockney
Lithograph in colours, on wove
Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 85
From A Hollywood Collectio...
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1960s Contemporary David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mount Fuji and Flowers by David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
A vintage David Hockney exhibition poster - this is not a later reproduction.
Category
1970s Pop Art David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
An Imaginary Landscape
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in six colours, 1969.
Signed and dated in pencil. Numbered from the edition of 75 plus 16 proofs.
Printed at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris.
Published by Petersburg Pre...
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1960s Pop Art David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Tower had one Window (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Perhaps the most famous story from the Grimm Brothers, Rapunzel spins the tale of a beautiful young princess locked away by an evil sorceress. Captured in this scene is the moment a King's son came across the tower and fell in love with her sweet singing, beseeching her: 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.' Though the sorcerer banishes Rapunzel and maims the prince, they are of course ultimately reunited to live happily together. This print pictures Rapunzel's tower prison with her cascading hair nearly reaching the forest floor. Hockney's tight crosshatching enhances the menacing form of the tower, contrasted with the dense, soft grass and the elegant gesture of her hair.
Sheet from “Rapunzel” story (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Text printed letterpress and “The Tower Had One Window” etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Etching 13.5 x 6.25 in. / 34 x15.7 cm
Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm
Unsigned: apart from the published edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios. This is one of eleven images recently found in our archive which we have decided to make available. There is one only of each image.
This print from our publisher's archives is one of thirty-nine etchings from David Hockney’s 1969 "Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm". Hockney worked on this series with Paul Cornwall-Jones at Petersburg Press over the course of a year. 400 books and 100 portfolios plus artist’s proofs were printed. The artist illustrated six stories: 'The Little Sea Hare', 'Fundevogel', 'Rapunzel', 'The Boy who left Home to learn Fear', 'Old Rinkrank' and 'Rumpelstilzchen'. According to Hockney, "They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very, very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. They cover quite a strange range of experience, from the magical to the moral." He was inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, including Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, but Hockney reimagined the stories for a modern audience.
The frontispiece for the project pictures Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, the elderly German woman who recounted fairy tales to the Grimm brothers when they were in their late twenties. In Hockney's words: “The stories weren’t written by the Brothers Grimm…they came across this woman called Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, who told 20 stories to them in this simple language, and they were so moved by them that they wrote them down word for word as she spoke.” Hockney drew the German woman in the style of Dürer, formally posed yet naturalistic against an impeccably crosshatched swath of grey.
Hockney wrote about the surreal plots contained in the Brothers Grimm tales: “…the stories really are quite mad, when you think of it, and quite strange. In modern times, it’s like the story of a couple moving into a house, and in the next door’s garden they see this lettuce growing: and the wife develops this craving for the lettuce that she just must have and climbs over to pinch it, and the old woman who lives in the house next door says well, you can have the lettuce if you give me your child, and they agree to it. And if you put it into terms like this and imagine them in their semi-detached house agreeing to it all, it seems incredible.” Hockney enhanced this unbelievable quality with his illustrations which traverse inky, dense areas of intense crosshatching and minimalist line work.
Rather than serving as direct interpretations of the plot, the images capture moments and feelings. Some portray the magic yet mundane -- Rapunzel's tiny face gazing placidly at a well-tended garden, or project danger and unease as in The Haunted Castle, with its citadel perched atop craggy rocks, dramatically lit against a dark sky. Hockney's sense of humor comes through in Cold Water About to Hit the Prince, in which a man tucked into bed stares straight at a rush of water drawn with a splash (this technique is likely Spit Bite, and the resultant bold spattered brushstroke contrasts beautifully with the rest of the carefully crosshatched image). A Wooded Landscape, with its lush textures, conveys the bucolic setting of a fairy tale and the potential danger hidden within the woods -- the viewer is left to wonder who lives on the hilltop in that diminutive cabin.
These etchings defy the conventions of beautiful fairy tale illustrations...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
A Black Cat Leaping (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
A Black Cat Leaping (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Etching and aquatint on paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Plate 9.25 x 10.6 in. / 23.5 x 27 cm
Paper 17.5 x 12.25. / ...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Paper Pools
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
David Hockney
Paper Pools
1980
Lithograph on paper, Edition of 1000
26.5 x 23 cm (10 7/16 x 9 1/8 ins)
DH17975
The print is in pristine condition and has never been framed.
Category
1980s Post-War David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Room Full of Straw (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
A Room Full of Straw (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Etching and aquatint on paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm
Plate 11 x 9 in. / 28 ...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Rapunzel Growing in the Garden (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Rapunzel Growing in the Garden (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Paper 17.5 x 12.25 / 45 x 31 cm
P...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Sexton Disguised as a Ghost Stood (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The Sexton Disguised as a Ghost Stood Still as Stone (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Paper 17.5 ...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Glass Mountain (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The Glass Mountain (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm
Plate 11 ...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Princess in her Tower (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This print from our publisher's archives is one of thirty-nine etchings from David Hockney’s 1969 "Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm". Hockney worked on this series with Paul C...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
A Wooded Landscape (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
A Wooded Landscape (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP"
Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm
Plate 14 ...
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1960s Modern David Hockney Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
David Hockney landscape prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic David Hockney landscape prints available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of landscape prints to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by David Hockney in lithograph, paper, archival paper and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the Pop Art style. Not every interior allows for large David Hockney landscape prints, so small editions measuring 9 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Guillaume Cornet, Romare Bearden, and James Rosenquist. David Hockney landscape prints prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $850 and tops out at $165,000, while the average work can sell for $42,100.
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Questions About David Hockney Landscape Prints
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Reproductions of David Hockney’s art are very popular and can be found online as well as in many physical retail stores and art stores. Finding original fine-art prints that Hockney created — prints created specifically to be made into a limited edition — is a bit more difficult, but they can be located at art galleries, auction houses and various online platforms. Shop a selection of authentic David Hockney prints from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022David Hockney is known as an important artist in the pop art movement. His paintings and photo collages of Los Angeles swimming pools are what are most frequently referenced when talking about his works. Today David Hockney has moved into the digital art arena and continues to push artistic boundaries. Shop a selection of David Hockney pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022A digital collage, much like the ones by artist David Hockney, can be made by taking many photographs from one place. Take your collection of photos to photoshop and work in the collage, but do not blend the images. Photoshop will put the images in layers and you can adjust them. You’ll want to adjust them and play with the color and shadow to get your own effect. Shop a selection of original Hockney pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022David Hockney was known for creating photo collages and photo montages. He would take polaroid photos and use the images to compose his patchwork of art. You can shop a selection of David Hockey’s pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022David Hockey was one of the first artists to use acrylics. He would paint large areas of one color, then would add finer details over top. Shop a selection of David Hockney’s pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 13, 2024There are several interesting facts about David Hockney. For one, the British artist refused to write an essay for his final exam at the Royal College of Art and instead submitted a sketch of his diploma, prompting the school to change the rules in order to allow him to graduate. He also has synesthesia, which allows him to see colors when he listens to music. In 1990, he turned down the opportunity to be knighted by the Queen of England. Another fact is that Hockney has always been fascinated by the use of technology in art. He is credited with inventing the technique of joining Polaroid photos in a collage to form a panoramic picture, and he has recently been using the Brush app to paint on an iPad. On 1stDibs, find a selection of David Hockney art.