Sale: 541 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, June 09. 2023 in Munich Lot 199

 

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David Hockney
Paul Hockney 2, 2009.
Inkjet print
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,148

(incl. surcharge)
Paul Hockney 2. 2009.
Inkjet print.
DH0572W. Signed, dated and numbered. From an edition 12 copies. On firm paper. 111.5 x 75 cm (43.8 x 29.5 in). Sheet: 124 x 85 cm (48,8 x 33,4 in).
[KT].

• David Hockney is among the most prominent and most influential artists of pop art.
• He uses the most diverse techniques in his works and experiments with latest digital media, as of 2009 he made the "computer drawings".
• Drawing on a tablet connected to an inkjet printer, Hockney created a latest definition of pop art.
• Hockney is a portrait master: the sitter is the oldest of the four brothers, Paul Hockney (1931–2018).
• Hís works are in many important collections of contemporary art, among them Tate Gallery, London, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Musée national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
• Hockney has grand solo shows at renowned museums on an almost annual basis, in 2017/18 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in cooperation with Tate Britain, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2019 at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and in 2020/21 at the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
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PROVENANCE:
Annely Juda Fine Art, London (with a label on the reverse).
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired from the above).

LITERATURE:
David Hockney: drawing in a printing machine, May 1 - June 11, 2009, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 2009 (no page).

"It allows you to draw directly in a printing machine… I used to think the computer was too slow for a draughtsman […] but things have improved and it now enables one to draw freely and fast with color. There are advantages and disadvantages to anything new in mediums for artists, but the speed allowed here with color is something new, swapping brushes in the hand with oil or wateroclor takes time.
[..] Technology is allowing us to do all kinds of things today, but I don't think anybody has thought it could help painting. The computer is a very good tool, but it needs imagination to use it well."

David Hockney about the "computer drawings", quoted from: www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/chronology/2009




199
David Hockney
Paul Hockney 2, 2009.
Inkjet print
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,148

(incl. surcharge)