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David Hockney(born 1937)Hotel Acatlán: Two Weeks Later, from Moving Focus
26 March 2024, 10:00 PDT
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David Hockney (born 1937)
Hotel Acatlán: Two Weeks Later, from Moving Focus (MCAT 271), 1985
Lithograph in colors on two sheets of TGL handmade paper (as issued), signed in pencil, dated and annotated 'A.P V/XX' (one of 20 artist's proofs in Roman numerals, aside from the edition of 98), with the blindstamp of the publisher, Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Bedford, New York, the full sheets, framed.
sheet 28 7/8 x 73 5/8in (73.3 x 187cm)
Lithograph in colors on two sheets of TGL handmade paper (as issued), signed in pencil, dated and annotated 'A.P V/XX' (one of 20 artist's proofs in Roman numerals, aside from the edition of 98), with the blindstamp of the publisher, Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Bedford, New York, the full sheets, framed.
sheet 28 7/8 x 73 5/8in (73.3 x 187cm)
Footnotes
In 1984, David Hockney traveled to Mexico City for the opening of his exhibition Hockney Paints the Stage at the Museo Rufino Tamayo. While traveling from Mexico City to Oaxaca, Hockney's car broke down so he decided to stay at the Hotel Romano Angeles in the small town of Acatlán. The hotel was arranged around a beautiful central courtyard full of foliage and immediately inspired the artist. Hockney returned later that year with master printer Kenneth Tyler which led to the creation of the Moving Focus series. Tyler developed a new printing method for this series that allowed Hockney to draw the printing elements onto portable Mylar sheets while sitting in the courtyard rather than in the printing workshop. Hockney preferred to use one sheet per color, the transparency allowing him to visualize the layers of the final composition. The Mylar sheets were later transferred to aluminum plates for printing at the New York printshop. Tyler claims the series 'set a record for the number of printing elements made (a total of 577) with some 500 colors printed,' making the Moving Focus series the artist's largest and most ambitious series of color lithographs.
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