David Hockney

David Hockney

b. 1937

In Despair, from Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy

signed in pencil, dated and numbered XVII/XXV

etching and aquatint on wove paper

plate: 348 by 225 mm. 13¾ by 8⅞ in.

sheet: 637 by 509 mm. 25⅛ by 20 in.

Executed in 1966; this impression is number 17 from the edition of 25 on wove paper (there was also an edition of 75 in Arabic numerals on Crisbrook handmade paper with smaller margins), printed and published by Editions Alecto Limited, London.