DAVID HOCKNEY O.M., C.H., R.A. (BRITISH B.1937) §
PORTRAIT OF FELIX MANN 1969
£938
Auction: 18 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
Signed and numbered XIV/XXXV in pencil to plate, lithograph on japan paper, printed at Curwen Studios, London
Dimensions
74cm x 52cm (29in x 20.5in)
Footnote
Note:
Following on directly from Paolozzi's groundbreaking work at the ICA, David Hockney and Joe Tilson broke on to the London art scene in 1961 in that year's Young Contemporaries exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery which also notably featured Allen Jones and RB Kitaj. Three years later, disillusioned by the British art establishment, Hockney moved to California where, resident for four years he began to work in acrylics, creating a series of paintings of swimming pools. Of these, the most famous, A Bigger Splash, brought him huge international recognition.
During the 1960s and early seventies Hockney created a series of portraits focusing on his friends and colleagues among whom were some of the most talented artist's designers, scientists and intellectuals of the age. Among these his understated pencil portrait and lithograph of Felix Mann, typify his linear style at this moment.