Lot 29
  • 29

DAVID HOCKNEY, R.A. | The Blue Guitar (S.A.C. 199-218; MCA Tokyo 178-197)

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • David Hockney
  • The Blue Guitar (S.A.C. 199-218; MCA Tokyo 178-197)
  • Etching and aquatint
  • each sheet: approx. 45 by 52cm.; 18 by 21in.
The set of 20 etchings with aquatint printed in colours, 1976-77, each signed in pencil, numbered 83/200 (total edition includes 37 proofs), published by Petersburg Press, on Inveresk mould-made paper, lacking the list of plates, justification, and portfolio box

Condition

Apparently the full sheets, good condition, some with very pale discoloration in margins, minute stray fox marks throughout, framed. *(Six examined out of the frame).
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