Gregory 1974 HS

Year1974

Hand SignedLower Right in Pencil 

Condition Mint 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromAuction House 2023 

Story / Additional InfoDavid Hockney (Born 1937)Title: Gregory, 1974 (s.9656) 7/3/23 Dom Medium: Original Soft and Hard Ground Etching, 1974, in 3 colours: red, and two blues, two copper plates, worked in soft ground and hardground, on Inveresk, mould made paper, signed and dated by the artist in pencil,Size: Height 35.8 in.; Width 27.6 in. / Height 91 cm.; Width 70 cm Published by : Petersburg Press, London Printed by: Maurice Payne, Kent Jones & Dany Levy, London Note: This was part of a series of Lithographs Hockney made of his American and British friends. Hockney made many drawings and other prints of the same subject. In a candid moment, Hockney recently disclosed that despite a string of lovers, the love of his life was “maybe” Gregory Evans, his 62-year-old manager. Hockney and Evans had been lovers for about a decade through the 1970s but have now worked together for 40 years. Evans remains to this day a close friend of Hockney's with the artist including a portrait of Gregory 

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David Hockney - United Kingdom

David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. He is perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes. The artist’s oeuvre ranges from collaged photography and opera posters, to Cubist-inspired abstractions and plein-air paintings of the English countryside. Often returning to a certain motif again and again, he probes the manifold ways one can see an image or a space. Hockney’s exploration of photography’s effect on painting and everyday life is evinced in his hallmark work A Bigger Splash (1967). “In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time,” he has explained. Born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, United Kingdom, Hockney attended the Royal College of Art in London alongside R.B. Kitaj. At school, he studied under both Francis Bacon and Peter Blake, but also credits Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse for influencing his distinctive and varied style. In 1963, the artist traveled to Southern California for the first time and fell in love with the bright sunshine and easygoing lifestyle. Since then, he has alternated living and working between Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and Los Angeles, CA. In 2017, the artist was the subject of a comprehensive retrospective which opened to critical acclaim at the Tate Gallery in London. Hockney’s works are presently held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Listings wanted.