IMPORTANT DAVID HOCKNEY PRINTS FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION
DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

Livingroom & Terrace, July 1986

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DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
Livingroom & Terrace, July 1986
home made print in colors executed on an office color copy machine, on two sheets of Arches text rag paper, 1986, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 55⁄60, published by the artist, with his blindstamp, the full sheets, in very good condition, in the original artist's frame
Overall: 17 x 22 in. (431 x 558 mm.)
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Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 303

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Lot Essay

In February of 1986, Hockney began experimenting with a friend’s copy machine and within an hour he had discovered it was, in fact, a new type of printing machine. The ‘home made prints’ he produced using the machine disrupted the traditional processes of color printmaking, traditionally a painstaking process that involves many layers and experts to match each new section of the print.

Hockney described the process, ‘with these copying machines, I can work by myself — indeed you virtually have to work by yourself; there’s nothing for anyone else to do — and I can work with great speed and responsiveness. In fact, this is the closest I’ve ever come in printing to what it’s like to paint: I can put something down, evaluate it, alter it, revise it, all in a matter of seconds.’

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