Alka Sektzer (Scottish Arts Council 6)

Details

David Hockney (b. 1937)
Alka Sektzer (Scottish Arts Council 6)
etching and aquatint, 1961, on Crisbrook laid paper, signed in pencil, aside from the edition of 15 (there were also six artist's proofs), published by Petersburg Press, London, 1969, with wide margins, minor foxing, discolouration at the sheet edges, otherwise in good condition, framed
Plate 281 x 130 mm., Sheet 384 x 289 mm.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Some of Hockney's early prints are in fact versions of his paintings; the present print is related to the canvas of the same year entitled The Most Beautiful Boy in the World. However, far from being reproductions, these prints translate an image from the language of one medium into another. As Craig Hartley notes, the etching medium, combining scratchy etched lines and blotchy aquatint is 'perfectly adapted to transfer the style of his early oil paintings into a graphic language' (David Hockney Printmaking and Technique - I, Print Quarterly, September 1988, p.243).

More from The Collection of R.B. Kitaj

View All