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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2015 | Two Boys Aged 23 or 24; The Shop Window of a Tobacco Store | 24 | AAG - Arts & Antiques Group | Amsterdam | |||
Prints & Multiples
35.5 x 23 cm (13.98 x 9.06 in)
Etching and aquatint
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll; Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll; Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll; Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 43/75 ll; Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll; Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 28/75 ll; Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll; Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 lo
David Hockney
(Bradford 1937)
a) Two Boys Aged 23 or 24
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll
Etching and aquatint, 35.5 x 23 cm (image size) / 40.4 x 26.5 cm (sheet size)
b) He Inquired After the Quality
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll
Etching and aquatint, 35.5 x 22.3 cm (image size) / 45.6 x 32.2 cm (sheet size)
c) According to Prescriptions of Ancient Magicians
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll
Etching, 35.2 x 22.4 cm (image size) / 40.6 x 27.4 cm (sheet size)
d) In an Old Book
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 43/75 ll
Etching, 35.2 x 22.7 cm (image size) / 41.8 x 27.8 cm (sheet size)
e) The Shop Window of a Tobacco Store
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll
Etching and aquatint, 35.5 x 23 cm (image size) / 46 x 32.7 cm (sheet size)
f) In the Dull Village
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 28/75 ll
Etching, 35.2 x 22.7 cm (image size) / 41.9 x 28.4 cm (sheet size)
g) The Beginning
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll
Etching and aquatint, 35.5 x 22.7 cm (image size) / 41.2 x 28.1 cm (sheet size)
h) In Despair
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 ll
Etching, 35 x 22.4 cm (image size) / 40.9 x 28.2 cm (sheet size)
i) Beautiful and White Flowers
Signed and dated "66 lr
numbered 24/75 lo
Etching and aquatint, 35.5 x 22.7 cm (image size) / 45.6 x 32.8 cm (sheet size)
NB:
The etchings offered here are an homage by David Hockney to the Greek poet CP Cavafy (1863-1933). Hockney made this series as an illustration of his poems in 1966. At first glance the artist and the poet form an unlikely pair; Hockney is known for his whimsical and often daring descriptions, while Cavafy is remembered as a quiet and introvert writer. Cavafy however was one of the first early-modern poets that openly wrote about homosexuality. Late nineteen fifties the artist, himself a homosexual, discovered these poems in his local library. Hockney so much admired the poet that he decided to steal the only copy from the library. The etchings do not serve as a literal illustration, but illustrate the sensuality and eroticism Cavafy had to hide in his daily life and in his poems. The lyrical etchings show young men in secretive settings, under the sheets, in bed or rather with a provocative glance at the viewer.
The young man depicted there
Wasn"t destined for those
Who love in ways that are more or less healthy,
Inside the bounds of what is clearly permissible -
With his deep chestnut eyes,
The rare beauty of his face,
The beauty of anomalous charm,
With those ideal lips that bring
Sensual delight to the body loved,
Those ideal limbs shaped for beds
That common morality calls
shameless.
(9x) Six illustrated
