Photographs, Including Works from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Photographs, Including Works from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Property from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
David Hockney
A Neat Window, Santa Monica (from Twenty Photographic Pictures portfolio)
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November 16, 10:48 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 EUR
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Property from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
David Hockney
b. 1937
A Neat Window, Santa Monica (from Twenty Photographic Pictures)
chromogenic print, initialed and editioned ‘78/80’ in ink in the margin, framed, a Lucio Amelio gallery label and stamp on the reverse, 1973, printed in 1976
image: 17.8 by 24 cm (7 by 9½ in.)
frame: 40.9 by 46.3 cm (16⅛ by 18¼ in.)
Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples
A Neat Window, Santa Monica was taken in 1967-68 when David Hockney and his lover Peter Schlesinger rented a tiny historic penthouse on 3rd Street in Santa Monica. There, they befriended their neighbours, novelist Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy. A Neat Window, Santa Monica provides a glimpse into Isherwood and Bachardy’s cozy home. The shutters shown here are also a compositional element in Hockney’s 1968 painting, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.
Hockney’s first used his photographic images as references for paintings, and by early 1982, the photographs he had taken filled roughly 120 albums. To Hockney, these were merely 'scrap-books of travel memories plus ideas for paintings, nothing more than that' (David Webb, Portrait of David Hockney, p. 201). In 1976, Ileana Sonnabend showed Twenty Photographic Pictures at Sonnabend Gallery, marking the first time any of Hockney’s photographs were ever shown in a gallery setting. Following Hockney’s debut at Sonnabend, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris both presented exhibitions of Hockney’s photographs.