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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
David Hockney
Pool Made with Paper and Blue Ink for Book (M.C.A.T 234)
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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
David Hockney
b. 1937
Pool Made with Paper and Blue Ink for Book (M.C.A.T 234)
signed in pencil, dated and numbered 860/1000; the book also signed in blue ink on the colophon and stamp-numbered 860
lithograph printed in colors on Arches Cover paper, with the original cloth-covered folder, book, slipcase and box
sheet: 10⅝ by 9 in. 266 by 229 mm.
Executed in 1980; this impression is number 860 from the edition of 1000, with the blindstamp of the publisher, Tyler Graphics, Ltd.
According to Hockney, “Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form… But the look of swimming pools is controllable – even its color can be manmade – and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency the depth of water as well. So I had to use techniques to represent this. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colors of the spectrum appear everywhere”.[2] These rhythmic properties are best conveyed in the pulsing lines which comprise Lithographic Water Made of Lines and Crayon (M.C.A.T. 211) and the present work. In each of these later prints, dated 1978-80, water makes up nearly the entire composition, allowing viewers to experience what Hockney referred to as the “language” of ripples and splashes.
[1] As quoted in: Walker, John Albert, Cultural Offensive: America’s Impact on British Art Since 1945,’ United Kingdom, Pluto Press, 1998.
[2] Nikos Stangos, Ed., David Hockney by David Hockney, London 1976, p. 104.
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