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David Hockney
FOURTEEN POEMS BY C.P. CAVAFY
1966

Name: FOURTEEN POEMS BY C.P. CAVAFY
Brand: David Hockney
Rating: 5 (41 reviews)

Price:$8,900

$10,500List Price

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(Hockney, David) illus. FOURTEEN POEMS BY C.P. CAVAFY. S.47-59. Editions Electo, London, 1966. Folio (19 x 13 /14 inches, 484 x 385 mm.), cloth, slipcase, text and thirteen etchings. One of 250 copies from "Edition A," signed and numbered 48/500 on the Justification page (Edition A, numbered 1-250/500; Edition B, numbered 251-500/500. Edition A differs from Edition B in that it includes an extra plate, laid in and signed, titled and numbered by Hockney (this being numbered 48/250). Fine, with very light wear and fading to the slipcase. The loose plate has often been removed from the book at sold separately, and many copies from Editions A and B have been broken and the plates sold separately, so that despite the relatively large size of the publication, complete copies are now scarce. The total edition comprises "Edition A," 250 copies, numbered 1-250 plus 50 Artist's Proofs, all signed, with a signed etching laid into each of the 250 copies, but not into the Artist's Proofs, "Edition B," 250 copies, like Edition A, but without the laid-in etching, numbered 251-500, "Edition C," 50 sets of the etchings loose in portfolio numbered 1-50 of 75, each etching signed, "Edition D," 25 sets, plus 15 Artist's Proofs, like Edition C, but with the text included, numbered 51 to 75 of 75, "Edition E," 25 sets, plus 5 artist's proofs, comprising text, 12 unsigned etchings, and one signed etching, loose in portfolio, numbered I to XXV. Each etching in each edition is stamped on its reverse with the edition of which it is a part. The total size of the edition, including the Artist's Proofs, is, therefore, 670. David Hockney first discovered the Greek poet C.P.Cavafy while a student at the Royal Colege of Art in the early nineteen sixties. In 1961 he produced two etchings (Kaisarion with all his Beauty; Mirror, Mirror on the Wall) and a painting (A Grand Procession of Dignitaries in the Semi-Egyptian Style ) inspired by Cavafy's poems. So when Paul Cornwall-Jones of Editions Alecto asked him to make a series of etchings relating to Cavafy in 1966 he agreed without hesitation. The poems Hockney chose all related to Alexandria in Egypt with its barely concealed flavour of homosexual love, but Alexandria had become too spoilt since the poems were written in the nineteen twenties and so he travelled to Beirut for two weeks in order to make careful pen and ink drawings of the daily

Creator:
David Hockney (1937, British)
Creation Year:
1966
Dimensions:
Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
Medium:
Etching
Period:
1960-1969
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Portland, ME
Reference Number:
Seller: 107251stDibs: LU36731997563

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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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