David Hockney The Buzzing of the Blue Guitar From The Blue Guitar Series
By David Hockney
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Artist: David Hockney Title: "The Buzzing of the Blue Guitar" (from The Blue Guitar Series) Year: 1977 Medium: Etching with Aquatint on Inveresk Mould-Made Paper Sheet size: 21.65" x...
Paper, Etching
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The Blue Guitar [Title], from: The Blue Guitar - Pop Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Old Guitarist, from: The Blue Guitar - Pop Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Etching, Aquatint, Paper
Franco-American Mail, from: The Blue Guitar - Pop Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
A Picture of Ourselves, from: The Blue Guitar - Pop Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
What is this Picasso, from: The Blue Guitar - Pop Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
A Moving Still Life, from: The Blue Guitar - Pop Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Figures with Still Life, from: The Blue Guitar - Pop Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
I Say they Are, from: The Blue Guitar - Pop Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
On it May Stay its Eye, from: The Blue Guitar - Pop Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Tick It, Tock It, Turn It True (from The Blue Guitar)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Color etching and aquatint on Inveresk mould-made paper, 1976-1977. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right. Inscribed "BAT" in pencil, lower left. The "bon à tirer" proof, as...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 20.5 in W 23 in D 1 in
David Hockney 'A Tune' from The Blue Guitar Signed Limited Edition Print
By David Hockney
Located in San Rafael, CA
David Hockney (born 1937) A Tune, plate 3 from The Blue Guitar, 1976-77 Etching with aquatint in colors on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 82/200 (there were also 35 artist'...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 23.25 in W 25.75 in
David Hockney Signed Etching, 1977, What Is This Picasso? from The Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: David Hockney Medium: Etching & aquatint in colors on Inveresk mould-made paper Title: What Is This Picasso?
Etching, Aquatint
Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1976 Hockney produced a suite of twenty etchings entitled “The Blue Guitar: Etchings by David Hockney Who Was Inspired by Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired by Pablo Picasso.”
Etching
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H 20.79 in W 18.12 in
Title Page, from: The Blue Guitar - British Blue Guitar Pop
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Etching, Aquatint
Franco-American Mail, from: The Blue Guitar,
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
DAVID HOCKNEY b.1937 born in Bradford, United Kingdom 1937 (British) Title: Franco-American Mail, from: The Blue Guitar, 1976 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching a...
Etching, Aquatint
In a Chiaroscuro (from The Blue Guitar)
By David Hockney
Located in East Hampton, NY
David Hockney 18 x 20 1/2 inches 18 x 20 ½ inches
In a Chiarobscuro from the Blue Guitar Portfolio
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
It was under Crommelynck's tutelage that Hockney learnt about the sugar lift aquatint, a method used extensively by Picasso, as well as colour etching techniques which he would use l...
Figure with Still Life (from The Blue Guitar Portfolio)
By David Hockney
Located in Miami, FL
Etching and drypoint from a portfolio of twenty etchings (eighteen with aquatint and one with drypoint) Published by Petersburg Press, London and New York Printed by Petersburg Pre...
Drypoint, Etching
Tick It, Tock It, Turn It True, from: The Blue Guitar
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Provenance: Albert White Gallery, Toronto Literature: 1. (1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995.
Etching, Aquatint
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H 24.02 in W 27.17 in
1977 Original exhibition poster David Hockney's Self Portrait with blue guitar
By David Hockney
Located in PARIS, FR
The original exhibition poster from 1977 featuring David Hockney's "Self Portrait with Blue Guitar" at the André Emmerich Gallery in New York is a captivating piece that encapsulates...
Paper, Lithograph
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H 20.5 in W 23 in D 1 in
David Hockney 'I Say They Are' From The Blue Guitar Limited Edition Signed Print
By David Hockney
Located in San Rafael, CA
David Hockney (British, born 1937) 'I Say They Are' from The Blue Guitar, 1976-77 Plate #16 from the Portfolio of 20 Etching with aquatint in colors on on Inveresk mould made paper ...
Etching, Lithograph
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H 26 in W 22.25 in D 1 in
Title Page (from the Blue Guitar portfolio), hand signed
By David Hockney
Located in Aventura, FL
Soft ground etching and aquatint in colors on Inveresk paper. Hand signed lower right by David Hockney. Hand numbered 121/200 lower right. Artwork size: 20.9 x 18 inches. Frame s...
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
$295,000
H 31.25 in W 41.5 in
Views of Hotel Well I (Moving Focus Series), Signed Lithograph, T. 280; DH. 67
By David Hockney
Located in Aventura, FL
Views of Hotel Well I, from Moving Focus series (T. 280; DH. 67). Lithograph printed in colors on TGL handmade paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Edition 15/75. or...
Paper, Lithograph
$1,100
H 17.75 in W 16 in
The glass mountain shattered David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Etching, Aquatint
The Dog Show
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Measures 71.5 x 49.5 cm. Never framed. An original exhibition poster from the 1990s that features Hockney's artwork of his beloved Stanley and Boodge. David Hockney (born 1937) is...
Paper, Lithograph
A Retrospective at the Tate Gallery
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
A rare original exhibition poster from David Hockney's A Retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1988-1989 featuring Hockney's original artwork titled Little Stanley Sleeping...
Lithograph, Wove Paper
$200
H 23.5 in W 16.75 in
David Hockney 'Park Hotel Munich' 2020- Offset Lithograph
By David Hockney
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In 2020, an offset lithograph reproduction of David Hockney's "Park Hotel Munich" was published, measuring 23.5 x 16.75 inches. The original artwork, created in 1972, is part of Hock...
Offset
$3,500
H 35.5 in W 26.5 in D 1 in
David Hockney - Paris Review 25th Anniversary coveted Limited Ed. poster, Framed
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney Offset lithograph poster on lithographic paper The image depicted on this poster is after David Hockney's original gouache "Flower Study" created in 1980. Limited Edit...
Offset
$800
H 40.5 in W 28.75 in D 0.1 in
An Image of Gregory Offset Print Exhibition Poster, Hockney, 1996
By David Hockney
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exhibition poster was created for The Prints of David Hockney, held at The Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and the Tyler Graphics Archive Collection in 1996. Featuring Hockn...
Offset
$407Sale Price|36% Off
H 18.12 in W 21.66 in
Woman with Guitar Mixed Media Painting, Fauvist Style, Signed, 1970s
By Jordi Curos Ventura
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Woman with Guitar Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Technique: Mixed media on canvas board Dimensions: 46 x 55 cm Framed: No Period: Second half of the 20th century Sign...
Mixed Media
$65,000
H 10.5 in W 9 in
David Hockney, Pool Made with Paper and Blue Ink for Book, 1980
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
1980 Lithograph in colors, on Arches Cover paper, the full sheet Image/sheet: 10 1/2 x 9 in. (26.7 x 22.9 cm) Edition AP LXXXV, apart from the edition of 1000, Published by Tyler Gra...
Paper, Lithograph
David Hockney 'Mount Fuji and Flowers' 2016
By David Hockney
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This poster, titled Mount Fuji and Flowers, is based on a piece from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. David Hockney's work is renowned for its vibrant colo...
Offset
$300
H 27.75 in W 33 in D 0.1 in
David Hockney 'Montcalm Interior at Seven O'Clock' 1988
By David Hockney
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This David Hockney poster, titled Montcalm Interior at Seven O’Clock, is printed in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England on a high-quality coated heavy stock paper. The work captures Ho...
Offset
$38,709
H 25.52 in W 35.52 in
Ink in the Room Screen Print, Contemporary, Signed Edition 37/68
By David Hockney
Located in Bristol, GB
23-colour screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition 37 of 68 + 14 AP's Signed, numbered, dated and blindstamped by publisher on the front (Gemini G.E.L.) Excellent, with minor loss of s...
Screen
$3,030
H 38.59 in W 23.63 in
1988 poster for David Hockney: A Retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
By David Hockney
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1988 poster for “David Hockney: A Retrospective” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a vibrant and visually striking representation of the artist’s distinct style. Featuring Hoc...
Paper, Lithograph
Views of Hotel Well II, from Moving Focus, 1985
By David Hockney
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Artist: David Hockney (1937 - ) Title: Views of Hotel Well II, from Moving Focus, 1985 Series: Moving Focus, 1984 Medium: Lithograph in colors, on HMP paper, 1985, signed and dated ...
Lithograph
$850
H 17.75 in W 16 in
The Enchantress in her Garden David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. Hockney stated: “The old woman who wants the child. In one tr...
Etching, Aquatint
Fiesta '88 Original Poster by David Hockney, 1988
By David Hockney
Located in Winchester, GB
Featuring his 1986 painting "Flowers, Apple & Pear on a Table, July 1986", this poster was created to promote the Bradford Fiesta in 1988. Hockney's hometown of Bradford has long...
Paper
$1,050
H 32.25 in W 36.5 in D 0.1 in
1986 David Hockney 'Pearblossom Highway' Pop Art Vintage
By David Hockney
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This 1986 poster was created by David Hockney for an exhibition held at the International Center of Photography in New York. The poster is a superb example of Hockney's photo-collage...
Offset
$6,500
H 6 in W 4 in
Roy Lichtenstein - I Know How You Made Me Feel, Brad! - MoMA VIP Invite, SIGNED
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New York, NY
Historically scarce -- hand signed museum invitations by Lichtenstein from MoMA, where the artist attended himself, rarely surface, especially when framed and preserved at this level...
Lithograph, Offset
Dog 43 after David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Offset Lithograph, exhibition poster Edition of Unknown Size Unsigned 20.87 x 25.20 in 53.0 x 64.0 cm This is an original vintage David Hockney poster - it is not a later reproduc...
Lithograph
Los Angeles Olympics Poster (Signed)
By David Hockney
Located in Manchester, GB
The colour offset lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment wove paper. Published in 1982 for the LA Olympic Games in 1984, David Hockney was one of the fifteen artists invited to crea...
Offset
$1,100
H 24.75 in W 17.75 in
The Princess after many years in the Glass Mountain by David Hockney fairy tale
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled No. 516, from: A Bigger Book, Art Edition D
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Untitled iPad drawing printed on paper from A Bigger Book 2016 56 x 43.2 cm Edition 85 of 250 Hand signed, numbered and dated '10' by Hockney Published by David Hockney and Taschen A...
Paper, Digital
$2,000
H 17.75 in W 16 in
The older Rapunzel by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. This composition is sourced from Paolo Uccello’s St George and...
Etching, Aquatint
Composition Red and Blue
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
2005 Offset lithograph holiday card in colours on wove paper with the accompanying blue paper folio 10.7 x 28 cm An unsigned, unnumbered work from the edition of unknown size Publish...
Offset
$2,800
H 17.75 in W 16 in
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel, which he chose for its popularity. When illustrating the princ...
Etching, Aquatint
$21,563
H 25.83 in W 19.85 in D 0.04 in
The Print Collector (Portrait of Felix Mann)- 1960s - David Hockney - Lithograph
By David Hockney
Located in Roma, IT
The Print Collector (Portrait of Felix Mann) is an original lithograph realized by David Hockney in 1969. This beautiful artwork is from an edition of 65 prints on Arches paper. It i...
Lithograph
$54,600
H 22.05 in W 17.01 in
A Bigger Book Art Edition 'Untitled, 468' Signed Inkjet Print
By David Hockney
Located in Bristol, GB
iPad drawing 8-colour inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper, with full margins, with the illustrated 680-page chronology book and stand designed by Marc Newson Contained in the...
Archival Paper, Inkjet
Tulips, from Culture Carriers Stamp out Art (Hand Signed) Framed
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From the famous 1971 British postal workers strike - historic Lithograph mounted on franked envelope of wove paper The Post Office Worker's Strike Commemoration Stamps Limited Editi...
Paper, Lithograph
$1,400
H 12 in W 12 in
Digging up glass by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Etching, Aquatint
$7,500
H 30 in W 22 in
David Hockney - Ojai Festival poster Pencil signed and dated, (Baggott, 81)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper, signed in pencil and dated on the front. This festival poster is after an original etching, with a complementary autograph with date in pen...
Lithograph
Set Relating to Simplified Faces
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
This unique group brings together two successive etching states from 1973 and a closely related oil painting from 1974, offering a rare insight into David Hockney’s early exploration...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Canvas, Oil
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 was prolific and worked 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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Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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