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Lot 108

David Hockney
(born 1937)
Lithographic Water Made of Lines

1 November 2019, 14:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$106,325 inc. premium

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David Hockney (born 1937)

Lithographic Water Made of Lines (Tokyo 203), 1978-1980
Lithograph in colors on TGL handmade paper, signed in pencil, dated '78' and numbered 15/39 (there were also 16 artist's proofs), with the blindstamp of the publisher/printer Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, with full margins, framed.
20 x 27in (50.7 x 68.5cm)
sheet 26 x 34 1/4in (66 x 87cm)

Footnotes

In 1964, Hockney visited Los Angeles where he became entranced with the Southern Californian landscape, and in particular with swimming pools as unnatural waterscapes that underscored the hedonism and freedom that characterized life in California. In 1978, Hockney rented a home in the Hollywood Hills where he began a series of lithographs of swimming pools with master printer Kenneth Tyler. Each print in the series has the same matrix of a diving board over the deep-end of the pool. As the series progresses, Hockney literally "fills the pool" with various lines and colors.

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