Lot 150
  • 150

DAVID HOCKNEY | Two Vases in the Louvre (Scottish Arts Council 168; MCA Tokyo 154)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • David Hockney
  • Two Vases in the Louvre (Scottish Arts Council 168; MCA Tokyo 154)
  • etching
  • plate: 740 by 740mm 29 1/8 by 29 1/8 in
  • sheet: 988 by 910mm 38 7/8 by 35 7/8 in
Etching and aquatint printed in colours, 1974, signed in pencil, dated, numbered 8/75 (total edition includes 18 artist's proofs), printed by Maurice Payne, Kent Jones and Dany Levy, London, published by Petersburg Press, New York and London, with the artist's copyright blindstamp, on Inveresk mould made paper, framed

Condition

The margins appear to be full though the sheet measures 7 by 10mm smaller than the dimensions recorded in the catalogue raisonné, in good condition, some extremely pale fox marks, a few handling creases in the margins, very pale light-staining, the verso with a band of adhesive-staining along extreme sheet edges, with a few associated small areas of skinning, framed.
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