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Lot 238
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David Hockney

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • David Hockney
  • boodgie
  • signed with initials and dated l.r.: '93
  • crayon
  • 77cm by 57cm., 30¼ by 22½in.

Provenance

LA Louver, California

Literature

Rhoda Koenig, ‘Top Dog’, The World of Interiors, December 1996, illustrated p.66;
David Hockney, Dog Days, Thames & Hudson, London, 1998, illustrated p.43.

Condition

The sheet is sound and not laid down. The vertical edges are deckled. The work appears in excellent overall condition. Mounted under glass in simple wooden box frame; unexamind out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

'The dogs think nothing of them, really. They'd just as soon pee on them. They don't care about art since, I might point out, they're simply on to higher things - the source of art, which is love.' (David Hockney)

David Hockney first began to paint his two Dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie, in 1993 following a difficult time when a number of his friends had died, including one of his closest, Henry Geldzahler, the renowned curator, writer and subject of many of Hockney's portraits. Hockney remarked, 'I realized that this was a marvellous subject for me at this time, because they were little innocent creatures, creatures like us, and they didn't know about much. It was just a marvellous, loving subject.'