David Hockney

I Say They Are, from: The Blue Guitar, by David Hockney, 1976.

• David Hockney (British, 1937-2026).
• Etching and aquatint in colors on Inveresk paper.
• Hand signed and numbered.
• Part of an artist's proof edition of 35, this being 4.
• Printed by Maurice Payne of the Petersburg Press, London.
• Published by Petersburg Press, London, 1977.
• This work is presented unframed.

This etching and aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "David Hockney" at the lower right margin. It is also inscribed “AP” [artist’s proof] and hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 35, at the lower left margin. This impression is one of 35 artist’s proofs hand signed and numbered with Roman numerals aside from the standard edition of 200. This composition is the 16th from the series of 20 for The Blue Guitar.

This work was printed by Maurice Payne of the Petersburg Press, London and was published by Petersburg Press, London in 1977. The title is stamped in ink at the center of the lower margin, verso. 

Hand signed and numbered.

Other impressions of this subject are held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and The National Gallery of Art, Washington.

(1996). David Hockney: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints 1954 - 1995. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art. Reference: M.C.A.T. 187.

David Hockney Prints 1954-77. [London]: Petersburg Press for the Midland Art Group and the Scottish Arts Council, 1979. Reference: Scottish Arts Council 208.