Lot 15
  • 15

David Hockney, R.A.

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • David Hockney, R.A.
  • The Poet (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 190)
  • Etching
  • plate: 34.8 by 42.5cm.; 13¾ by 16¾in.; sheet: 46.1 by 52.6cm.; 18 1/8 by 20¾in.
Etching and aquatint printed in colours, 1976-77, from The Blue Guitar, signed in pencil, numbered 52/200 (total edition includes 35 artist's proofs), on wove paper, published by Petersburg Press, London and New York

Condition

With full margins, in good condition apart from irregular pale paper discoloration to parts of the plate mark and the extreme edges of the sheet, very small scattered fox marks, a small, lightly skinned area and an area of discoloration in the upper margin, framed.
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