David Hockney

David Hockney

b. 1937

The Blue Guitar (S.A.C. 199-217; MCA Tokyo 178-197)

each sheet signed in pencil and numbered 115/200, with their stamped titles verso

the complete portfolio, comprising 20 etchings with aquatint printed in colours, on Inveresk mould-made paper, loose (as issued), together with the title page, table of contents and justification in the original leather-bound portfolio case

each sheet: approx. 457 by 526mm 18 by 20 3/4in

overall: 550 by 480 by 35mm 21 7/8 by 19 by 1 5/8in

Executed in 1976-77; this portfolio is number 115 from the edition of 200 plus 35 artist's proof sets numbered in Roman numerals, printed by Petersburg Studios, published by Petersburg Press, London and New York.