Lot 5
DAVID HOCKNEY (BRITISH, B. 1937) §
MYSELF & MY HEROES
Auction: 27 September 2008 at 12:00 BST
£9,000
Description
Etching and aquatint, signed, dated 1961, edition of 50
Dimensions
29.5cm x 49.5cm (10.2in x 19.5in)
Footnote
Notes:
'Myself and My Heroes' was David Hockney's first print which he made on arriving at the Royal College of Art, London. The work shows the artist beside a haloed Mahatma Gandhi and Walt Whitman.