Lot 201
  • 201

David Hockney

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • David Hockney
  • Water Pouring into Swimming Pool, Santa Monica (S. A. C., MCA Tokyo 38)
  • lithograph
  • sheet: approx. 515 by 667mm 20 1/4 by 26 1/4 in
Lithograph printed in colours, 1964, signed in pencil, dated, numbered 14/75, on japon nacré, with the publisher's blindstamp, Editions Alecto, London, framed

Condition

With margins (a deckle edge at left, right and above), slightly unevenly trimmed in places along the lower sheet edge, generally in good condition apart from paper discoloration, two small white areas of pigment at the right of the image and a further two in the left and right margins (the latter two covering pin holes), a tiny stain in the upper section of the image, a very faint trace of soiling (graphite?) through the water stream at left, a few minute fox marks (only visible upon close inspection), a couple of unobtrusive vertical creases in the lower part of the sheet, strips of brown tape around the edges of the sheet verso, framed. (Occasional traces of ink residue verso).
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