David Hockney

Property from a Private European Collection

David Hockney

b. 1937

Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy (S.A.C., MCA Tokyo 47-58)

The complete book, comprising 12 etchings, with text by Constantine P. Cavafy, 1966, signed on the justification in pencil, numbered 472/500, each sheet stamped 'Edition B' verso, printed and published by Editions Alecto Limited, London, on wove paper, bound (as issued), contained in the original cotton silk covered boards and slipcase

each plate: approx. 35 by 22.5cm.; 13¾ by 8⅞in.

each sheet: approx. 46.7 by 33cm.; 18⅜ by 13in.

overall: 48.4 by 34 by 3.3cm.; 19 by 13⅜ by 1⅜in.